Route brief · HOU → DEL
Houston → Delhi
$1,010
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 30 – Oct 31 · 31 nights
American2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefDELDelhiMughal tombs, Lutyens boulevards and the loudest markets on earth — plus the Taj Mahal at arm’s length.Best windowOct–MarAirportsIndira Gandhi (DEL)All routes into DelhiWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Delhi: Oct–Mar. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 20 hours outbound, on a 31-night trip — ticketed under American, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,010 for 13,476 km each way, that works out to about $37 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Delhi, this fare ranks 8th — 50% above the $674 from New York. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 33 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston, where the middle fare is $1,021. 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.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ Indira Gandhi (DEL)
- Flight time
- ~20 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~13,476 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- American
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Mar
HOU → DEL, answered.
How far in advance should I book HOU → Delhi?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Houston to Delhi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under American. 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 August 24). 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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