Route brief · LAX → SYD
Los Angeles → Sydney
$814
−22% vs typical
seasonal median $1,045 · difference $231
Sep 23 – Sep 30 · 7 nights
Fiji Airways1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $865–$1,082
- Board rank
- Stronger than 61%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSYDSydneyHarbour sails, cliff walks and flat whites that ruin you for coffee anywhere else.Best windowOct–Nov · Mar–AprAirportsKingsford Smith (SYD)All routes into SydneyWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Sep is the cheapest for LA → SYD. Best time to be there: Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr.
Fares bottom out in September around $814 and peak in January near $1,202 — a $388 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 16 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Fiji Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $814 for 12,074 km each way, that works out to about $34 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Sydney, this fare ranks 2nd — 7% above the $760 from Delhi. For context, the middle fare among the 53 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles is $712.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $985 then versus $1,023 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 $544, on Nov 18.
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 Sep · around $814
22% below the $1,045 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Los Angeles → Sydney · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Kingsford Smith (SYD)
- Flight time
- ~16 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~12,074 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,045 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Fiji Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr
LA → SYD, answered.
Is $814 a good price for Los Angeles to Sydney?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $1,045 round-trip. At $814 you're 22% below that, saving about $231, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Los Angeles to Sydney?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Sydney are Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book LA → Sydney?
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 5 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 Sydney?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Fiji Airways. 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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