Good1 stop · 10h
HOU to HNLUnited States
Honolulu
$593
usually $825
−28%
Most monthly lows $726–$825. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · HOU → AUH
Houston to Abu Dhabi
Best fare, round trip
$1,438
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Tue 29 Dec
- Return
- Tue 5 Jan
- Stay
- 7 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 16.5h
- Airline
Turkish Airlines
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
United Arab EmiratesAbu DhabiQuieter and cheaper than Dubai an hour up the road, with the Grand Mosque and the Louvre to itself.Best windowNov–MarAirportsZayed International (AUH)Every route into Abu DhabiFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 16.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,438 for 13,177 km each way, that works out to about $55 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Abu Dhabi, this fare ranks 10th — 2.1× the $695 we hold from Chicago. For context, the middle fare among the 31 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston is $1,244. 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Abu Dhabi: Nov–Mar.
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ Zayed International (AUH)
- Flight time
- ≈16.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈13,177 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
Good to know
HOU → AUH, answered.
How far in advance should I book HOU → Abu Dhabi?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Houston to Abu Dhabi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Turkish Airlines. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 August). 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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