Route brief · NYC → PAR
New York → Paris
$451
−19% vs typical
seasonal median $555 · difference $104
Oct 12 – Oct 31 · 19 nights
French BeeNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $520–$598
- Board rank
- Stronger than 52%
- Route sample
- 10 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPARParisStill the benchmark. Croissant inflation is real, but a $380 crossing fixes the math.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsCharles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY)All routes into ParisWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 10 months, Oct is the cheapest for NYC → PAR. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $451 and peak in June near $788 — a $337 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies French Bee nonstop and takes about 7.5 hours outbound, on a 19-night trip. At $451 for 5,837 km each way, that works out to about $39 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 8 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Paris, this fare ranks 5th — 1.7× the $261 we hold from Abu Dhabi. 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 $621.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 13 · $337 (47% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $626 then versus $630 now, across 7 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 $337, on Sep 13.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $451
19% below the $555 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · New York → Paris · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Charles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY)
- Flight time
- ~7.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,837 km each way
- Typical price
- $555 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- French Bee
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
NYC → PAR, answered.
Is $451 a good price for New York to Paris?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $555 round-trip and this fare is 19% under it, about $104. 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 Paris?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Paris are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book NYC → Paris?
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 10 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 Paris?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (French Bee). The outbound leg runs around 7.5 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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