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 → DXB
Houston to Dubai
Best fare, round trip
$479
−24%
below its usual $630
you keep $151
GoodFound
- Depart
- Sat 28 Nov
- Return
- Thu 3 Dec
- Stay
- 5 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 16.5h
- Airline
Turkish Airlines
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $520 and $632. The drop beats 65% of measured fares on the board, over 4 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
UAEDubaiFuture-city skyline, desert dunes, winter sun on tap — and Emirates sales twice a year.Best windowNov–MarAirportsDXB · Al Maktoum (DWC)Every route into DubaiFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in November around $479 and peak in February near $781, 63% dearer, across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 16.5 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $479 for 13,148 km each way, that works out to about $18 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $42 per 1,000 km that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Dubai, this is the cheapest right now — 19% under the next one, Dallas. It is also the cheapest of the 31 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston. The best time to be in Dubai: Nov–Mar.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 31% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $831 then versus $576 now, across 14 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 $479, on 28 Nov.
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.
Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $479
24% below the $630 typical fare
$479Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$632Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$520Jan ’27, below the usual price. Compare January fares.$781Feb, above the usual price. Compare February fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Houston to Dubai, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ DXB · Al Maktoum (DWC)
- Flight time
- ≈16.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈13,148 km each way
- Typical price
- $630 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
Good to know
HOU → DXB, answered.
Is $479 a good price for Houston to Dubai?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $630 round-trip. At $479 you're 24% below that, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Houston to Dubai?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Dubai are Nov–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book HOU → Dubai?
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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Houston to Dubai?
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 October). 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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