Route brief · NYC → DEL
New York → Delhi
$674
−4% vs typical
seasonal median $700 · difference $26
Oct 21 – Oct 28 · 7 nights
Ethiopian1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $675–$715
- Board rank
- Stronger than 4%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefDELDelhiMughal tombs, Lutyens boulevards and the loudest markets on earth — plus the Taj Mahal at arm’s length.Best windowOct–MarAirportsIndira Gandhi (DEL)All routes into DelhiWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Oct is the cheapest for NYC → DEL. Best time to be there: Oct–Mar.
Fares bottom out in October around $674 and peak in December near $766 — a $92 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 23.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Ethiopian, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $674 for 11,755 km each way, that works out to about $29 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Of the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Delhi, this is the cheapest right now — though Sydney is within a few dollars. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 28 routes of similar length we watch out of New York, where the middle fare is $745.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 16% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $805 then versus $676 now, across 8 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 $533, on Nov 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 Oct · around $674
4% below the $700 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · New York → Delhi · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Indira Gandhi (DEL)
- Flight time
- ~23.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~11,755 km each way
- Typical price
- $700 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ethiopian
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Mar
NYC → DEL, answered.
Is $674 a good price for New York to Delhi?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $700 round-trip and this fare is 4% under it, about $26. 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 New York to Delhi?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Delhi are Oct–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book NYC → Delhi?
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 5 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from New York to Delhi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ethiopian. 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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