Route brief · DXB → MNL
Dubai → Manila
$384
−16% vs typical
seasonal median $455 · difference $71
Oct 25 – Nov 8 · 14 nights
Cebu PacificNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $442–$517
- Board rank
- Stronger than 42%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMNLManilaChaotic, warm and mostly a gateway — the islands worth the trip are a cheap domestic hop away.Best windowDec–AprAirportsNinoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)All routes into ManilaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Oct is the cheapest for DXB → MNL. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in October around $384 and peak in December near $565 — a $181 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Cebu Pacific nonstop and takes about 9 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip. At $384 for 6,908 km each way, that works out to about $28 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Manila, this is the cheapest right now — 10% under the next one, Sydney. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 26 routes of similar length we watch out of Dubai, where the middle fare is $468.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 22 · $413 (21% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $490 then versus $515 now, across 7 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 $371, on Oct 25.
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $384
16% below the $455 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dubai → Manila · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- DXB · Al Maktoum (DWC) ↔ Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)
- Flight time
- ~9 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,908 km each way
- Typical price
- $455 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Cebu Pacific
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
DXB → MNL, answered.
Is $384 a good price for Dubai to Manila?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $455 round-trip and this fare is 16% under it, about $71. 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 Dubai to Manila?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Manila are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book DXB → Manila?
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 7 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 Dubai to Manila?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Cebu Pacific). The outbound leg runs around 9 hours.
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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