Route brief · LAX → AKL
Los Angeles → Auckland
$576
−16% vs typical
seasonal median $685 · difference $109
Sep 14 – Sep 20 · 6 nights
Qantas1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $657–$769
- Board rank
- Stronger than 42%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefAKLAucklandA city built on fifty volcanoes between two harbours — and the start of every New Zealand road trip.Best windowNov–AprAirportsAuckland (AKL)All routes into AucklandWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Sep is the cheapest for LA → AKL. Best time to be there: Nov–Apr.
Fares bottom out in September around $576 and peak in December near $793 — a $217 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 18 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Qantas, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $576 for 10,496 km each way, that works out to about $27 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Auckland, this is the cheapest right now — 13% under the next one, Tokyo. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 48 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles, where the middle fare is $687.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 8% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $685 then versus $633 now, across 4 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 $455, on Nov 6.
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.
Cheapest in Sep · around $576
16% below the $685 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Los Angeles → Auckland · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Auckland (AKL)
- Flight time
- ~18 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,496 km each way
- Typical price
- $685 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Qantas
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Apr
LA → AKL, answered.
Is $576 a good price for Los Angeles to Auckland?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $685 round-trip and this fare is 16% under it, about $109. 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 Los Angeles to Auckland?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Auckland are Nov–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book LA → Auckland?
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 5 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 Los Angeles to Auckland?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Qantas. 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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