Route brief · DEL → SGN
Delhi → Ho Chi Minh City
$255
−28% vs typical
seasonal median $355 · difference $100
Oct 7 – Oct 14 · 7 nights
AirAsia X1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $356–$359
- Board rank
- Stronger than 75%
- Route sample
- 5 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 5 months, Oct is the cheapest for DEL → SGN. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares bottom out in October around $255 and peak in December near $390 — a $135 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 8 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under AirAsia X, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $255 for 3,642 km each way, that works out to about $35 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Ho Chi Minh City, this fare ranks 3rd — 1.7× the $152 we hold from Shanghai. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 17 routes of similar length we watch out of Delhi.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $379 then versus $390 now, across 5 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 $243, on Aug 24.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 122 days priced, from 37 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
September 2026
November 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $255
28% below the $355 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Delhi → Ho Chi Minh City · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Indira Gandhi (DEL) ↔ Tan Son Nhat (SGN)
- Flight time
- ~8 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,642 km each way
- Typical price
- $355 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- AirAsia X
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
DEL → SGN, answered.
Is $255 a good price for Delhi to Ho Chi Minh City?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $355 round-trip. At $255 you're 28% below that, saving about $100, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Delhi to Ho Chi Minh City?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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 DEL → 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 5 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Delhi to Ho Chi Minh City?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under AirAsia X. 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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