Route brief · NYC → HOU
New York → Houston
$235
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 23 – Oct 26 · 3 nights
Frontier Airlines1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHOUHoustonUnited’s Latin America gateway, the best Vietnamese food in the country, and NASA on the edge of town.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsBush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU)All routes into HoustonWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Houston: Mar–May · Oct–Nov. 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 5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under Frontier Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $235 for 2,282 km each way, that works out to about $51 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Houston, this fare ranks 3rd — 52% above the $155 from Los Angeles. For context, the middle fare among the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of New York is $209. We have 2 months 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.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $284 then versus $275 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 $200, on Sep 13.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 122 days priced, from 39 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
December 2026
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU)
- Flight time
- ~5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,282 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Frontier Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
NYC → HOU, answered.
How far in advance should I book NYC → Houston?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 New York to Houston?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Frontier Airlines. 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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