Route brief · LAX → PAR
Los Angeles → Paris
$570
−17% vs typical
seasonal median $690 · difference $120
Sep 11 – Sep 16 · 5 nights
Condor2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $664–$703
- Board rank
- Stronger than 45%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPARParisStill the benchmark. Croissant inflation is real, but a $380 crossing fixes the math.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsCharles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY)All routes into ParisWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Sep is the cheapest for LA → PAR. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $570 and peak in January near $725 — a $155 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 14 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under Condor, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $570 for 9,086 km each way, that works out to about $31 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Paris, this fare ranks 4th — 8% above the $527 from Kuala Lumpur. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 39 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles, where the middle fare is $700.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Sep 11 · $570 (31% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $809 then versus $792 now, across 6 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 $403, on Sep 4.
Cheapest in Sep · around $570
17% below the $690 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Los Angeles → Paris · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Charles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY)
- Flight time
- ~14 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,086 km each way
- Typical price
- $690 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Condor
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
LA → PAR, answered.
Is $570 a good price for Los Angeles to Paris?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $690 round-trip and this fare is 17% under it, about $120. 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 Paris?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Paris are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book LA → Paris?
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 6 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 Paris?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Condor. 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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