Route brief · LAX → OPO
Los Angeles → Porto
$1,173
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 10 – Sep 17 · 7 nights
United1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefOPOPortoGranite, port wine and a river gorge through the middle — cheaper and steeper than Lisbon.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsFrancisco Sá Carneiro (OPO)All routes into PortoWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Porto: May–Jun · Sep–Oct. 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 7-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,173 for 8,990 km each way, that works out to about $65 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Porto, this fare ranks 10th — 1.7× the $688 we hold from Delhi. 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.
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Francisco Sá Carneiro (OPO)
- Flight time
- ~12.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,990 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
LA → OPO, answered.
How far in advance should I book LA → Porto?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Porto?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under United. 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 August 30). 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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