Route brief · LAX → HAM
Los Angeles → Hamburg
$834
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 1 – Nov 24 · 23 nights
Lufthansa1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHAMHamburgMore canals than Venice and a working port at its centre — Germany at its least postcard-like.Best windowMay–SepAirportsHamburg (HAM)All routes into HamburgWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Hamburg: May–Sep. 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 12.5 hours outbound, on a 23-night trip — ticketed under Lufthansa, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $834 for 9,075 km each way, that works out to about $46 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 14 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Hamburg, this fare ranks 10th — 1.8× the $454 we hold from Miami. For context, the middle fare among the 39 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles is $700. We have 1 month 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 8% lower than when tracking began on Aug 15 — $902 then versus $834 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 $766, on Aug 31.
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
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Hamburg (HAM)
- Flight time
- ~12.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,075 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Lufthansa
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
LA → HAM, answered.
How far in advance should I book LA → Hamburg?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Los Angeles to Hamburg?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Lufthansa. 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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