Route brief · HOU → PTY
Houston → Panama City
$511
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 21 – Oct 20 · 29 nights
UnitedNonstop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPTYPanama CitySkyline on one side, colonial casco on the other, and Copa’s hub making Latin America cheap to reach.Best windowDec–AprAirportsTocumen (PTY)All routes into Panama CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Panama City: Dec–Apr. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies United nonstop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 29-night trip. At $511 for 2,839 km each way, that works out to about $90 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Panama City, this fare ranks 2nd — 28% above the $398 from Mexico City. For context, the middle fare among the 7 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.
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Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ Tocumen (PTY)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,839 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
HOU → PTY, answered.
How far in advance should I book HOU → Panama 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Panama City?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (United). The outbound leg runs around 4 hours.
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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