Route brief · DXB → SEL
Dubai → Seoul
$576
−13% vs typical
seasonal median $665 · difference $89
Sep 17 – Sep 24 · 7 nights
Air India1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $583–$669
- Board rank
- Stronger than 31%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSELSeoulPalaces wedged between skyscrapers, barbecue smoke at midnight, cafés that outnumber people.Best windowApr–May · Sep–OctAirportsIncheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP)All routes into SeoulWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Sep is the cheapest for DXB → SEL. Best time to be there: Apr–May · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $576 and peak in May near $761 — a $185 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 11 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Air India, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $576 for 6,783 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Seoul, this fare ranks 4th — 2.2× the $264 we hold from Jakarta. For context, the middle fare among the 32 routes of similar length we watch out of Dubai is $386.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Sep 17 · $576 (6% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $590 then versus $629 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 $509, on Aug 12.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $576
13% below the $665 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dubai → Seoul · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- DXB · Al Maktoum (DWC) ↔ Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP)
- Flight time
- ~11 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,783 km each way
- Typical price
- $665 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air India
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
DXB → SEL, answered.
Is $576 a good price for Dubai to Seoul?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $665 round-trip and this fare is 13% under it, about $89. 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 Seoul?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Seoul are Apr–May · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book DXB → Seoul?
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 9 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 Seoul?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air India. 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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