Route brief · LON → EDI
London → Edinburgh
$41
−18% vs typical
seasonal median $50 · difference $9
Oct 1 – Oct 7 · 6 nights
easyJetNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $44–$81
- Board rank
- Stronger than 49%
- Route sample
- 8 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefEDIEdinburghA volcanic crag with a castle on it, a medieval old town below, and the Highlands within a morning.Best windowMay–SepAirportsEdinburgh (EDI)All routes into EdinburghWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 8 months, Oct is the cheapest for LON → EDI. Best time to be there: May–Sep.
Fares bottom out in October around $41 and peak in June near $92 — a $51 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies easyJet nonstop and takes about 1.5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Oct 1 · $41 (27% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $55 then versus $53 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 $37, on Sep 14.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $41
18% below the $50 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · London → Edinburgh · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Heathrow (LHR) · Gatwick (LGW) · Stansted (STN) · Luton (LTN) ↔ Edinburgh (EDI)
- Flight time
- ~1.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~533 km each way
- Typical price
- $50 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- easyJet
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
LON → EDI, answered.
Is $41 a good price for London to Edinburgh?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $50 round-trip and this fare is 18% under it, about $9. 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 Edinburgh?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Edinburgh are May–Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book LON → Edinburgh?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 8 months of cached fares, Oct 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 Edinburgh?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (easyJet). The outbound leg runs around 1.5 hours.
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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