Route brief · MNL → KUL
Manila → Kuala Lumpur
$172
−9% vs typical
seasonal median $190 · difference $18
Oct 25 – Oct 31 · 6 nights
Cebu PacificNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $180–$210
- Board rank
- Stronger than 17%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefKULKuala LumpurAirAsia’s home base, which is why fares onward to anywhere in Asia collapse the moment you land.Best windowMay–JulAirportsKuala Lumpur (KUL) · Subang (SZB)All routes into Kuala LumpurWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Oct is the cheapest for MNL → KUL. Best time to be there: May–Jul.
Fares bottom out in October around $172 and peak in December near $344 — a $172 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Cebu Pacific nonstop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip. At $172 for 2,470 km each way, that works out to about $35 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Of the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Kuala Lumpur, this is the cheapest right now — 9% under the next one, Guangzhou. It is also the cheapest of the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Manila.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $209 then versus $205 now, across 4 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 $144, on Sep 20.
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 Oct · around $172
9% below the $190 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Manila → Kuala Lumpur · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK) ↔ Kuala Lumpur (KUL) · Subang (SZB)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,470 km each way
- Typical price
- $190 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Cebu Pacific
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Jul
MNL → KUL, answered.
Is $172 a good price for Manila to Kuala Lumpur?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $190 round-trip and this fare is 9% under it, about $18. 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 Kuala Lumpur?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Kuala Lumpur are May–Jul — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MNL → Kuala Lumpur?
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, Oct 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 Kuala Lumpur?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Cebu Pacific). The outbound leg runs around 4 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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