Route brief · LAX → HNL
Los Angeles → Honolulu
$168
−48% vs typical
seasonal median $325 · difference $157
Jan 6 '27 – Jan 10 '27 · 4 nights
Alaska AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $297–$452
- Board rank
- Stronger than 95%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHNLHonoluluWaikīkī sunsets and volcanic ridgelines — mainland fare wars put Hawai‘i under $300 more often than you’d think.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–NovAirportsDaniel K. Inouye (HNL)All routes into HonoluluWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Jan is the cheapest for LA → HNL. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in January around $168 and peak in May near $487 — a $319 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Alaska Airlines nonstop and takes about 6 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip. At $168 for 4,120 km each way, that works out to about $20 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $39 that medium-haul fares on this board typically run. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 9 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 9 · $254 (31% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $332 then versus $343 now, across 8 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 $232, on Aug 17.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Jan · around $168
48% below the $325 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Los Angeles → Honolulu · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Daniel K. Inouye (HNL)
- Flight time
- ~6 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~4,120 km each way
- Typical price
- $325 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Alaska Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Nov
LA → HNL, answered.
Is $168 a good price for Los Angeles to Honolulu?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $325 round-trip. At $168 you're 48% below that, saving about $157, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Los Angeles to Honolulu?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Honolulu are Apr–Jun · Sep–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book LA → Honolulu?
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 9 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 Honolulu?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Alaska Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 6 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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