Route brief · HKG → MNL
Hong Kong → Manila
$145
−15% vs typical
seasonal median $170 · difference $25
Oct 22 – Nov 22 · 31 nights
HK ExpressNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $147–$172
- Board rank
- Stronger than 38%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMNLManilaChaotic, warm and mostly a gateway — the islands worth the trip are a cheap domestic hop away.Best windowDec–AprAirportsNinoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)All routes into ManilaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Oct is the cheapest for HKG → MNL. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in October around $145 and peak in February near $212 — a $67 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies HK Express nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 31-night trip. At $145 for 1,119 km each way, that works out to about $65 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Oct 22 · $145 (14% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $167 then versus $167 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 $145, on Oct 22.
November 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $145
15% below the $170 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Hong Kong → Manila · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Hong Kong (HKG) ↔ Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,119 km each way
- Typical price
- $170 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- HK Express
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
HKG → MNL, answered.
Is $145 a good price for Hong Kong to Manila?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $170 round-trip and this fare is 15% under it, about $25. 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 Hong Kong to Manila?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Manila are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book HKG → Manila?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 6 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Hong Kong to Manila?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (HK Express). The outbound leg runs around 2.5 hours.
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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