Route brief · HOU → YUL
Houston → Montreal
$628
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Dec 17 – Dec 23 · 6 nights
Air Canada1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefYULMontrealFrench North America — cheap transatlantic fares in, and a summer festival calendar that never stops.Best windowJun–SepAirportsTrudeau (YUL)All routes into MontrealWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Montreal: Jun–Sep. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 4.5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Air Canada, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $628 for 2,569 km each way, that works out to about $122 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Montreal, this fare ranks 3rd — 17% above the $538 from Dallas. For context, the middle fare among the 8 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston is $508. 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 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 41% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $444 then versus $628 now, across 3 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 $444, on Sep 25.
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) ↔ Trudeau (YUL)
- Flight time
- ~4.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,569 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Air Canada
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Sep
HOU → YUL, answered.
How far in advance should I book HOU → Montreal?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Montreal?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Canada. 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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