Route brief · HOU → ROM
Houston → Rome
$791
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Mar 11 '27 – Mar 25 '27 · 14 nights
Turkish Airlines1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefROMRomeTwenty-eight centuries of showing off. Shoulder-season fares make the Colosseum a weekend idea.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsFiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)All routes into RomeWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Rome: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct. 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 13.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $791 for 9,157 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rome, this fare ranks 18th — 2.2× the $356 we hold from Miami. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston, where the middle fare is $900. We have 3 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 2% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $874 then versus $890 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 $796, on Oct 14.
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) ↔ Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)
- Flight time
- ~13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,157 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
HOU → ROM, answered.
How far in advance should I book HOU → Rome?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Rome?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Turkish Airlines. 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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