Route brief · DXB → PTY
Dubai → Panama City
$1,261
−6% vs typical
seasonal median $1,340 · difference $79
Jan 22 '27 – Feb 5 '27 · 14 nights
Lufthansa2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,334–$1,488
- Board rank
- Stronger than 8%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPTYPanama CitySkyline on one side, colonial casco on the other, and Copa’s hub making Latin America cheap to reach.Best windowDec–AprAirportsTocumen (PTY)All routes into Panama CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Jan is the cheapest for DXB → PTY. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in January around $1,261 and peak in December near $1,672 — a $411 spread across the 5 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 Lufthansa, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,261 for 13,818 km each way, that works out to about $46 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Panama City, this fare ranks 2nd — 46% above the $862 from Istanbul. For context, the middle fare among the 24 routes of similar length we watch out of Dubai is $1,095.
The 8 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 11% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,591 then versus $1,414 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 $1,332, on Oct 26.
- Sun, Sep 6$1,603
- Wed, Sep 9$1,488
- Wed, Sep 16$1,727
- Wed, Sep 23$1,721
- Sat, Oct 31$1,340
- Sun, Nov 8$1,336
- Tue, Nov 10$1,336
- Wed, Nov 25$1,334
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 Jan · around $1,261
6% below the $1,340 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dubai → Panama City · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- DXB · Al Maktoum (DWC) ↔ Tocumen (PTY)
- Flight time
- ~20.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~13,818 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,340 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Lufthansa
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
DXB → PTY, answered.
Is $1,261 a good price for Dubai to Panama City?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,340 round-trip and this fare is 6% under it, about $79. 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 Panama City?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Panama City are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book DXB → Panama 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, Jan 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 Panama City?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Lufthansa. 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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