Route brief · MNL → HKT
Manila → Phuket
$220
−10% vs typical
seasonal median $245 · difference $25
Jan 19 '27 – Jan 26 '27 · 7 nights
Scoot1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $227–$243
- Board rank
- Stronger than 20%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHKTPhuketThailand’s busiest beach island — crowded where the road goes, empty where the boat does.Best windowNov–MarAirportsPhuket (HKT)All routes into PhuketWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Jan is the cheapest for MNL → HKT. Best time to be there: Nov–Mar.
Fares bottom out in January around $220 and peak in December near $290 — a $70 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 6 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Scoot, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $220 for 2,576 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Phuket, this fare ranks 2nd — 16% above the $190 from Guangzhou. For context, the middle fare among the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Manila is $218.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $252 then versus $234 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 $209, on Sep 1.
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 Jan · around $220
10% below the $245 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Manila → Phuket · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK) ↔ Phuket (HKT)
- Flight time
- ~6 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,576 km each way
- Typical price
- $245 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Scoot
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
MNL → HKT, answered.
Is $220 a good price for Manila to Phuket?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $245 round-trip and this fare is 10% under it, about $25. 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 Phuket?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Phuket are Nov–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MNL → Phuket?
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 4 months of cached fares, Jan 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 Phuket?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Scoot. 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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