Route brief · MNL → BKK
Manila → Bangkok
$196
−11% vs typical
seasonal median $220 · difference $24
Nov 9 – Nov 20 · 11 nights
Cebu PacificNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $211–$221
- Board rank
- Stronger than 24%
- Route sample
- 8 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefBKKBangkokThe backpacker cliché that still delivers: gold temples, boat noodles, $12 street-food feasts.Best windowNov–FebAirportsSuvarnabhumi (BKK) · Don Mueang (DMK)All routes into BangkokWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 8 months, Nov is the cheapest for MNL → BKK. Best time to be there: Nov–Feb.
Fares bottom out in November around $196 and peak in July near $258 — a $62 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Cebu Pacific nonstop and takes about 3.5 hours outbound, on a 11-night trip. At $196 for 2,209 km each way, that works out to about $44 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bangkok, this fare ranks 3rd — 26% above the $156 from Guangzhou. For context, the middle fare among the 9 routes of similar length we watch out of Manila is $182.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Nov 9 · $196 (17% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $230 then versus $231 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 $183, on Nov 4.
Cheapest in Nov · around $196
11% below the $220 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Manila → Bangkok · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK) ↔ Suvarnabhumi (BKK) · Don Mueang (DMK)
- Flight time
- ~3.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,209 km each way
- Typical price
- $220 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Cebu Pacific
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Feb
MNL → BKK, answered.
Is $196 a good price for Manila to Bangkok?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $220 round-trip and this fare is 11% under it, about $24. 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 Manila to Bangkok?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Bangkok are Nov–Feb — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MNL → Bangkok?
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 8 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Manila to Bangkok?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Cebu Pacific). The outbound leg runs around 3.5 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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