Route brief · HOU → MEX
Houston → Mexico City
$232
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 14 – Sep 21 · 7 nights
VolarisNonstop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMEXMexico CityAltitude, murals, and arguably the best food city in the hemisphere at street prices.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsBenito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU)All routes into Mexico CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Mexico City: Mar–May · Oct–Nov. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Volaris nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip. At $232 for 1,210 km each way, that works out to about $96 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. We have 2 months 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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The median cached fare across this calendar is 12% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $263 then versus $232 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 $135, on Sep 5.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ Benito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,210 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Volaris
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
HOU → MEX, answered.
How far in advance should I book HOU → Mexico City?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Mexico City?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Volaris). 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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