Route brief · MEX → WAS
Mexico City → Washington
$514
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 16 – Oct 22 · 6 nights
Volaris1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefWASWashingtonFree museums by the dozen, and three airports competing hard enough to keep transatlantic fares honest.Best windowApr–May · Sep–OctAirportsDulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI)All routes into WashingtonWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Washington: Apr–May · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 6 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Volaris, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $514 for 3,031 km each way, that works out to about $85 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. For context, the middle fare among the 8 routes of similar length we watch out of Mexico City is $398. We have 1 month 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.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 6% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $608 then versus $570 now, across 5 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 $469, on Sep 25.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Benito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU) ↔ Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI)
- Flight time
- ~6 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,031 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Volaris
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
MEX → WAS, answered.
How far in advance should I book MEX → Washington?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Mexico City to Washington?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Volaris. 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 August 24). 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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