Route brief · DFW → SGN
Dallas → Ho Chi Minh City
$462
−50% vs typical
seasonal median $925 · difference $463
Sep 7 – Sep 21 · 14 nights
United2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $464–$1,123
- Board rank
- Stronger than 96%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSGNHo Chi Minh CityFaster and richer than Hanoi, and the usual door to the Mekong Delta and the southern coast.Best windowDec–MarAirportsTan Son Nhat (SGN)All routes into Ho Chi Minh CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Sep is the cheapest for DFW → SGN. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares bottom out in September around $462 and peak in December near $1,290 — a $828 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 20.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $462 for 14,567 km each way, that works out to about $16 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $40 that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Ho Chi Minh City, this fare ranks 3rd — 27% above the $365 from Los Angeles. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 28 routes of similar length we watch out of Dallas.
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $466 then versus $464 now, across 8 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $460, on Aug 25.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cheapest in Sep · around $462
50% below the $925 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dallas → Ho Chi Minh City · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- DFW · Love Field (DAL) ↔ Tan Son Nhat (SGN)
- Flight time
- ~20.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~14,567 km each way
- Typical price
- $925 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
DFW → SGN, answered.
Is $462 a good price for Dallas to Ho Chi Minh City?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $925 round-trip. At $462 you're 50% below that, saving about $463, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Dallas to Ho Chi Minh City?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Ho Chi Minh City are Dec–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book DFW → Ho Chi Minh City?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 6 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Dallas to Ho Chi Minh City?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under United. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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