Rare2 stops · 12.5h
NYC to HNLUnited States
Honolulu
$410
usually $820
−50%
Most monthly lows $576–$946. Cheaper than every other month on record (8).
Flights · NYC → HKT
New York to Phuket
Best fare, round trip
$788
−6%
below its usual $840
you keep $52
Found
- Depart
- Tue 16 Feb
- Return
- Mon 1 Mar
- Stay
- 13 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 19h
- Airline
Etihad
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $836 and $942. The drop beats 8% of measured fares on the board, over 7 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
ThailandPhuketThailand’s busiest beach island — crowded where the road goes, empty where the boat does.Best windowNov–MarAirportsPhuket (HKT)Every route into PhuketFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in February around $788 and peak in December near $913, 16% dearer, across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 19 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $788 for 14,547 km each way, that works out to about $27 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $42 per 1,000 km that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Phuket, this fare ranks 3rd — 10% above the $715 from Los Angeles. 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 $890. The best time to be in Phuket: Nov–Mar.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: 21 Oct, $838
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 10% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,096 then versus $990 now, across 18 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 $589, on 29 Sep.
October 2026
November 2026
Sunday 1 November: $925, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.2Tuesday 3 November: $879, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 4 November: $957, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 5 November: $1.2k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.67891011Thursday 12 November: $942, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.13Saturday 14 November: $1k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.151617181920Saturday 21 November: $989, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.22232425Thursday 26 November: $1.1k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.2728Sunday 29 November: $938, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.30
December 2026
Tuesday 1 December: $942, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 2 December: $913, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 3 December: $913, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.45678910111213Monday 14 December: $1.9k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.151617181920Monday 21 December: $2.6k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 22 December: $2.3k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 23 December: $2.6k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 24 December: $2.3k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Friday 25 December: $2.3k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 26 December: $2.1k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 27 December: $1.7k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.28293031
January 2027
Friday 1 January: $1.5k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 2 January: $1.5k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.345678910Monday 11 January: $907, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.1213141516171819Wednesday 20 January: $929, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 21 January: $890, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.22232425262728293031
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualCached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026 · bands from 102 tracked fares
Cheapest in Feb, around $788
6% below the $840 typical fare
$838Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$879Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$913Dec, above the usual price. Compare December fares.$890Jan ’27, above the usual price. Compare January fares.$788Feb, the cheapest month. Compare February fares.$832Apr, around the usual price. Compare April fares.$836Sep, around the usual price. Compare September fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, New York to Phuket, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Phuket (HKT)
- Flight time
- ≈19 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈14,547 km each way
- Typical price
- $840 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
Good to know
NYC → HKT, answered.
Is $788 a good price for New York to Phuket?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $840 round-trip and this fare is 6% under it. 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 Phuket?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Feb comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Phuket are Nov–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book NYC → Phuket?
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 7 months of cached fares, Feb comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from New York to Phuket?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Etihad. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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