Route brief · LAX → HKT
Los Angeles → Phuket
$712
−10% vs typical
seasonal median $790 · difference $78
Sep 11 – Oct 11 · 30 nights
Air China1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $780–$933
- Board rank
- Stronger than 20%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHKTPhuketThailand’s busiest beach island — crowded where the road goes, empty where the boat does.Best windowNov–MarAirportsPhuket (HKT)All routes into PhuketWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Sep is the cheapest for LA → HKT. Best time to be there: Nov–Mar.
Fares bottom out in September around $712 and peak in December near $1,296 — a $584 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 21 hours outbound, on a 30-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $712 for 13,961 km each way, that works out to about $25 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $40 that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Phuket, this fare ranks 4th — 46% above the $488 from San Francisco. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 31 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles, where the middle fare is $751.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 16% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $937 then versus $787 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 $506, on Aug 29.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 16 of 122 days priced, from 42 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $712
10% below the $790 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Los Angeles → Phuket · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Phuket (HKT)
- Flight time
- ~21 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~13,961 km each way
- Typical price
- $790 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
LA → HKT, answered.
Is $712 a good price for Los Angeles to Phuket?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $790 round-trip and this fare is 10% under it, about $78. 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 Phuket?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Phuket are Nov–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book LA → Phuket?
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 Phuket?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air China. 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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