Route brief · FRA → KIX
Frankfurt → Osaka
$762
−19% vs typical
seasonal median $935 · difference $173
Dec 1 – Dec 21 · 20 nights
Air China1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $907–$948
- Board rank
- Stronger than 52%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefKIXOsakaJapan with the volume up — street food, blunt humour, and Kyoto and Nara both under an hour by train.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsKansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)All routes into OsakaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Dec is the cheapest for FRA → KIX. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in December around $762 and peak in February near $962 — a $200 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 20-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $762 for 9,259 km each way, that works out to about $41 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 32 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Osaka, this fare ranks 9th — 53% above the $498 from San Francisco. For context, the middle fare among the 37 routes of similar length we watch out of Frankfurt is $730.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 9% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,063 then versus $970 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 $762, on Dec 1.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 122 days priced, from 35 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
September 2026
November 2026
Cheapest in Dec · around $762
19% below the $935 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Frankfurt → Osaka · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Frankfurt (FRA) · Hahn (HHN) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ~13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,259 km each way
- Typical price
- $935 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
FRA → KIX, answered.
Is $762 a good price for Frankfurt to Osaka?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $935 round-trip and this fare is 19% under it, about $173. 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 Osaka?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Osaka are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book FRA → Osaka?
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 Osaka?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air China. 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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