Route brief · MEX → PTY
Mexico City → Panama City
$398
−23% vs typical
seasonal median $520 · difference $122
Sep 13 – Sep 15 · 2 nights
AeroméxicoNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $441–$518
- Board rank
- Stronger than 63%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPTYPanama CitySkyline on one side, colonial casco on the other, and Copa’s hub making Latin America cheap to reach.Best windowDec–AprAirportsTocumen (PTY)All routes into Panama CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Sep is the cheapest for MEX → PTY. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in September around $398 and peak in July near $587 — a $189 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Aeroméxico nonstop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 2-night trip. At $398 for 2,408 km each way, that works out to about $83 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Of the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Panama City, this is the cheapest right now — 18% under the next one, Miami.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 10% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $492 then versus $441 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 $382, on Oct 8.
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 Sep · around $398
23% below the $520 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Mexico City → Panama City · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Benito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU) ↔ Tocumen (PTY)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,408 km each way
- Typical price
- $520 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Aeroméxico
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
MEX → PTY, answered.
Is $398 a good price for Mexico City to Panama City?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $520 round-trip. At $398 you're 23% below that, saving about $122, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Mexico City to Panama City?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Panama City are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MEX → Panama City?
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, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Mexico City to Panama City?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Aeroméxico). 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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