Route brief · FRA → LIM
Frankfurt → Lima
$1,020
−2% vs typical
seasonal median $1,040 · difference $20
Dec 9 – Dec 27 · 18 nights
Air Canada1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,037–$1,115
- Board rank
- Stronger than 1%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefLIMLimaThe best restaurant city in South America, on a cliff above the Pacific — and the way to Cusco.Best windowDec–AprAirportsJorge Chávez (LIM)All routes into LimaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Dec is the cheapest for FRA → LIM. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in December around $1,020 and peak in October near $1,286 — a $266 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 16.5 hours outbound, on a 18-night trip — ticketed under Air Canada, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,020 for 10,722 km each way, that works out to about $48 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 19 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Lima, this fare ranks 15th — 43% above the $714 from Copenhagen. For context, the middle fare among the 34 routes of similar length we watch out of Frankfurt is $756.
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,148 then versus $1,164 now, across 4 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 $910, on Nov 1.
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 Dec · around $1,020
2% below the $1,040 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Frankfurt → Lima · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Frankfurt (FRA) · Hahn (HHN) ↔ Jorge Chávez (LIM)
- Flight time
- ~16.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,722 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,040 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air Canada
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
FRA → LIM, answered.
Is $1,020 a good price for Frankfurt to Lima?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,040 round-trip and this fare is 2% under it, about $20. 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 Frankfurt to Lima?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Lima are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book FRA → Lima?
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, Dec comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Frankfurt to Lima?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Canada. 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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