Route brief · DXB → HAN
Dubai → Hanoi
$293
−41% vs typical
seasonal median $495 · difference $202
Sep 27 – Oct 2 · 5 nights
Air India Express2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $457–$601
- Board rank
- Stronger than 90%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHANHanoiOld-quarter alleys, motorbike tides and the country’s best food — and Ha Long Bay two hours out.Best windowOct–Nov · Mar–AprAirportsNoi Bai (HAN)All routes into HanoiWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Sep is the cheapest for DXB → HAN. Best time to be there: Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr.
Fares bottom out in September around $390 and peak in February near $645 — a $255 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 10 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under Air India Express, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $293 for 5,162 km each way, that works out to about $28 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 39 routes of similar length we watch out of Dubai, where the middle fare is $313.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 14% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $586 then versus $505 now, across 6 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 $378, on Sep 15.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 13 of 93 days priced, from 54 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Sep · around $390
21% below the $495 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dubai → Hanoi · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- DXB · Al Maktoum (DWC) ↔ Noi Bai (HAN)
- Flight time
- ~10 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,162 km each way
- Typical price
- $495 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air India Express
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr
DXB → HAN, answered.
Is $293 a good price for Dubai to Hanoi?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $495 round-trip. At $293 you're 41% below that, saving about $202, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Dubai to Hanoi?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Hanoi are Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book DXB → Hanoi?
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 Dubai to Hanoi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air India Express. 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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