Route brief · LAX → SGN
Los Angeles → Ho Chi Minh City
$365
−12% vs typical
seasonal median $415 · difference $50
Jan 31 '27 – Mar 16 '27 · 44 nights
Xiamen Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $400–$744
- Board rank
- Stronger than 28%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSGNHo Chi Minh CityFaster and richer than Hanoi, and the usual door to the Mekong Delta and the southern coast.Best windowDec–MarAirportsTan Son Nhat (SGN)All routes into Ho Chi Minh CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Jan is the cheapest for LA → SGN. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares bottom out in January around $365 and peak in December near $1,053 — a $688 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 18.5 hours outbound, on a 44-night trip — ticketed under Xiamen Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $365 for 13,136 km each way, that works out to about $14 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $40 that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Ho Chi Minh City, this is the cheapest right now — 11% under the next one, San Francisco. It is also the cheapest of the 39 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 46% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $508 then versus $741 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 $396, on Oct 19.
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 Jan · around $365
12% below the $415 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Los Angeles → Ho Chi Minh City · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Tan Son Nhat (SGN)
- Flight time
- ~18.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~13,136 km each way
- Typical price
- $415 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Xiamen Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
LA → SGN, answered.
Is $365 a good price for Los Angeles to Ho Chi Minh City?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $415 round-trip and this fare is 12% under it, about $50. 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 Ho Chi Minh City?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Ho Chi Minh City are Dec–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book LA → Ho Chi Minh City?
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 7 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 Los Angeles to Ho Chi Minh City?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Xiamen Airlines. 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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