Route brief · HKG → HNL
Hong Kong → Honolulu
$1,341
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Dec 19 – Jan 1 '27 · 13 nights
Philippine Airlines1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHNLHonoluluWaikīkī sunsets and volcanic ridgelines — mainland fare wars put Hawai‘i under $300 more often than you’d think.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–NovAirportsDaniel K. Inouye (HNL)All routes into HonoluluWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Honolulu: Apr–Jun · Sep–Nov. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12.5 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Philippine Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,341 for 8,929 km each way, that works out to about $75 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Honolulu, this fare ranks 17th — 4.9× the $271 we hold from Chicago. For context, the middle fare among the 36 routes of similar length we watch out of Hong Kong is $849. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
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Route facts
- Airports
- Hong Kong (HKG) ↔ Daniel K. Inouye (HNL)
- Flight time
- ~12.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,929 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Philippine Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Nov
HKG → HNL, answered.
How far in advance should I book HKG → Honolulu?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Hong Kong to Honolulu?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Philippine Airlines. 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.
Next step
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