Route brief · HOU → BKK
Houston → Bangkok
$572
−43% vs typical
seasonal median $1,010 · difference $438
Nov 24 – Dec 22 · 28 nights
Korean Air2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $596–$1,009
- Board rank
- Stronger than 92%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefBKKBangkokThe backpacker cliché that still delivers: gold temples, boat noodles, $12 street-food feasts.Best windowNov–FebAirportsSuvarnabhumi (BKK) · Don Mueang (DMK)All routes into BangkokWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Nov is the cheapest for HOU → BKK. Best time to be there: Nov–Feb.
Fares bottom out in November around $572 and peak in April near $1,097 — a $525 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 24 hours outbound, on a 28-night trip — ticketed under Korean Air, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $572 for 14,885 km each way, that works out to about $19 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $40 that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bangkok, this fare ranks 5th — 48% above the $386 from Los Angeles. It is also the cheapest of the 27 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 24% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $999 then versus $758 now, across 7 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 $572, on Nov 24.
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 Nov · around $572
43% below the $1,010 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Houston → Bangkok · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ Suvarnabhumi (BKK) · Don Mueang (DMK)
- Flight time
- ~24 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~14,885 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,010 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Korean Air
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Feb
HOU → BKK, answered.
Is $572 a good price for Houston to Bangkok?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $1,010 round-trip. At $572 you're 43% below that, saving about $438, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Houston to Bangkok?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Bangkok are Nov–Feb — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book HOU → Bangkok?
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 4 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Houston to Bangkok?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Korean Air. 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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