Route brief · LON → DEL
London → Delhi
$535
−7% vs typical
seasonal median $575 · difference $40
Sep 28 – Oct 28 · 30 nights
AL4 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $552–$695
- Board rank
- Stronger than 11%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefDELDelhiMughal tombs, Lutyens boulevards and the loudest markets on earth — plus the Taj Mahal at arm’s length.Best windowOct–MarAirportsIndira Gandhi (DEL)All routes into DelhiWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Sep is the cheapest for LON → DEL. Best time to be there: Oct–Mar.
Fares bottom out in September around $535 and peak in December near $738 — a $203 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 4 stops and takes about 15.5 hours outbound, on a 30-night trip — ticketed under AL, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $535 for 6,711 km each way, that works out to about $40 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 19 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Delhi, this fare ranks 13th — 32% above the $406 from Tokyo. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 18 routes of similar length we watch out of London, where the middle fare is $605.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 14% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $673 then versus $577 now, across 7 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 $519, on Sep 15.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 16 of 93 days priced, from 49 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Sep · around $535
7% below the $575 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · London → Delhi · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Heathrow (LHR) · Gatwick (LGW) · Stansted (STN) · Luton (LTN) ↔ Indira Gandhi (DEL)
- Flight time
- ~15.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,711 km each way
- Typical price
- $575 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- AL
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Mar
LON → DEL, answered.
Is $535 a good price for London to Delhi?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $575 round-trip and this fare is 7% under it, about $40. 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 London to Delhi?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Delhi are Oct–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book LON → Delhi?
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, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from London to Delhi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under AL. 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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