Route brief · KUL → MNL
Kuala Lumpur → Manila
$176
−12% vs typical
seasonal median $200 · difference $24
Jan 10 '27 – Jan 17 '27 · 7 nights
Scoot1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $186–$230
- Board rank
- Stronger than 28%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMNLManilaChaotic, warm and mostly a gateway — the islands worth the trip are a cheap domestic hop away.Best windowDec–AprAirportsNinoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)All routes into ManilaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Jan is the cheapest for KUL → MNL. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in January around $176 and peak in December near $290 — a $114 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Scoot, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $176 for 2,470 km each way, that works out to about $36 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Of the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Manila, this is the cheapest right now — though Singapore is within a few dollars. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of Kuala Lumpur, where the middle fare is $176.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $197 then versus $203 now, across 8 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 $176, on Oct 13.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 10 of 93 days priced, from 47 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Jan · around $176
12% below the $200 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Kuala Lumpur → Manila · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Kuala Lumpur (KUL) · Subang (SZB) ↔ Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)
- Flight time
- ~5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,470 km each way
- Typical price
- $200 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Scoot
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
KUL → MNL, answered.
Is $176 a good price for Kuala Lumpur to Manila?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $200 round-trip and this fare is 12% under it, about $24. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Kuala Lumpur to Manila?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Manila are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book KUL → Manila?
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 6 months of cached fares, Jan comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Kuala Lumpur to Manila?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Scoot. 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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