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 → SYD
Manila to Sydney
Best fare, round trip
$441
−19%
below its usual $545
you keep $104
Found
- Depart
- Sun 13 Dec
- Return
- Wed 13 Jan
- Stay
- 31 nights
- Flight
- Nonstop · 9h
- Airline
Cebu Pacific
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $504 and $558. The drop beats 52% of measured fares on the board, over 6 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
AustraliaSydneyHarbour sails, cliff walks and flat whites that ruin you for coffee anywhere else.Best windowOct–Nov · Mar–AprAirportsKingsford Smith (SYD)Every route into SydneyFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in December around $441 and peak in January near $654, 48% dearer, across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Cebu Pacific nonstop and takes about 9 hours outbound, on a 31-night trip. At $441 for 6,268 km each way, that works out to about $35 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 8 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Sydney, this fare ranks 2nd — 7% above the $414 from Singapore. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 8 routes of similar length we watch out of Manila, where the middle fare is $460. The best time to be in Sydney: Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $566 then versus $604 now, across 18 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 $376, on 20 Oct.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 20 of 111 days priced, from 67 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
1314151617Sunday 18 October: $504. Compare fares from this day.1920Wednesday 21 October: $535. Compare fares from this day.22232425262728293031
November 2026
12345Friday 6 November: $558. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 7 November: $604. Compare fares from this day.8910111213141516Tuesday 17 November: $604. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 18 November: $595. Compare fares from this day.1920Saturday 21 November: $565. Compare fares from this day.2223Tuesday 24 November: $701. Compare fares from this day.252627282930
December 2026
Tuesday 1 December: $698. Compare fares from this day.2Thursday 3 December: $618. Compare fares from this day.Friday 4 December: $939. Compare fares from this day.56789101112Sunday 13 December: $441. Compare fares from this day.141516171819Sunday 20 December: $465. Compare fares from this day.Monday 21 December: $465. Compare fares from this day.22232425262728293031
January 2027
1234567891011Tuesday 12 January: $795. Compare fares from this day.1314151617181920212223242526Wednesday 27 January: $654. Compare fares from this day.2829Saturday 30 January: $705. Compare fares from this day.31
Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Dec, around $441
19% below the $545 typical fare
$504Oct, below the usual price. Compare October fares.$558Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$441Dec, the cheapest month. Compare December fares.$654Jan ’27, above the usual price. Compare January fares.$547Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$544Mar, around the usual price. Compare March fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Manila to Sydney, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK) ↔ Kingsford Smith (SYD)
- Flight time
- ≈9 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈6,268 km each way
- Typical price
- $545 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Cebu Pacific
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr
Good to know
MNL → SYD, answered.
Is $441 a good price for Manila to Sydney?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $545 round-trip and this fare is 19% under it. 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 Sydney?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Dec 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 MNL → 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 6 months of cached fares, Dec comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Manila to Sydney?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Cebu Pacific). The outbound leg runs around 9 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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