Route brief · DFW → HNL
Dallas → Honolulu
$529
−3% vs typical
seasonal median $545 · difference $16
Nov 17 – Nov 24 · 7 nights
Southwest1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $531–$545
- Board rank
- Stronger than 2%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHNLHonoluluWaikīkī sunsets and volcanic ridgelines — mainland fare wars put Hawai‘i under $300 more often than you’d think.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–NovAirportsDaniel K. Inouye (HNL)All routes into HonoluluWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Nov is the cheapest for DFW → HNL. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Nov.
Fares on this route stay within about $59 across the 4 months we track — season matters less here than timing the drop. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 9 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Southwest, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $529 for 6,099 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Honolulu, this fare ranks 5th — 2.0× the $263 we hold from Houston.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $605 then versus $576 now, across 3 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 $294, on Oct 16.
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 Nov · around $529
3% below the $545 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dallas → Honolulu · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- DFW · Love Field (DAL) ↔ Daniel K. Inouye (HNL)
- Flight time
- ~9 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,099 km each way
- Typical price
- $545 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Southwest
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Nov
DFW → HNL, answered.
Is $529 a good price for Dallas to Honolulu?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $545 round-trip and this fare is 3% under it, about $16. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Dallas to Honolulu?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Honolulu are Apr–Jun · Sep–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book DFW → Honolulu?
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 4 months of cached fares, Nov 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 Honolulu?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Southwest. 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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