Route brief · NYC → LIS
New York → Lisbon
$648
−3% vs typical
seasonal median $665 · difference $17
Nov 11 – Nov 15 · 4 nights
TAP Air PortugalNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $666–$667
- Board rank
- Stronger than 2%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefLISLisbonTiled hills, custard tarts, Atlantic light — TAP’s hub wars keep this Europe’s cheapest gateway.Best windowMar–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsHumberto Delgado (LIS)All routes into LisbonWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Nov is the cheapest for NYC → LIS. Best time to be there: Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $648 and peak in September near $741 — a $93 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies TAP Air Portugal nonstop and takes about 7 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip. At $648 for 5,422 km each way, that works out to about $60 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 8 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Lisbon, this fare ranks 8th — 2.0× the $326 we hold from Dubai. For context, the middle fare among the 25 routes of similar length we watch out of New York is $584.
The 8 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 8% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $732 then versus $672 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 $437, on Oct 2.
- Thu, Sep 3$741
- Tue, Sep 22$800
- Mon, Oct 12$666
- Fri, Oct 16$676
- Mon, Oct 19$740
- Fri, Nov 6$651
- Wed, Nov 11$648
- Sat, Dec 26$667
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 Nov · around $648
3% below the $665 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · New York → Lisbon · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Humberto Delgado (LIS)
- Flight time
- ~7 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,422 km each way
- Typical price
- $665 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- TAP Air Portugal
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct
NYC → LIS, answered.
Is $648 a good price for New York to Lisbon?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $665 round-trip and this fare is 3% under it, about $17. 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 Lisbon?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Lisbon are Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book NYC → Lisbon?
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, Nov 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 Lisbon?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (TAP Air Portugal). The outbound leg runs around 7 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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