Great1 stop · 6h
MNL to SGNVietnam
Ho Chi Minh City
$178
usually $255
−30%
Most monthly lows $193–$255. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · MNL → MEL
Manila to Melbourne
Best fare, round trip
$434
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Sun 13 Dec
- Return
- Wed 13 Jan
- Stay
- 31 nights
- Flight
- Nonstop · 8.5h
- Airline
Cebu Pacific
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
AustraliaMelbourneLaneway coffee, four seasons before lunch, and the Great Ocean Road starting an hour down the coast.Best windowMar–May · Sep–NovAirportsTullamarine (MEL) · Avalon (AVV)Every route into MelbourneFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Cebu Pacific nonstop and takes about 8.5 hours outbound, on a 31-night trip. At $434 for 6,343 km each way, that works out to about $34 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Melbourne, this fare ranks 2nd — 8% above the $400 from Singapore. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Manila. We have 3 months 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Melbourne: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 49% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $417 then versus $622 now, across 14 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 $399, on 30 Dec.
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.
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 3 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK) ↔ Tullamarine (MEL) · Avalon (AVV)
- Flight time
- ≈8.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈6,343 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Cebu Pacific
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
MNL → MEL, answered.
How far in advance should I book MNL → Melbourne?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Manila to Melbourne?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Cebu Pacific). The outbound leg runs around 8.5 hours.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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