Route brief · NYC → PRG
New York → Prague
$621
−12% vs typical
seasonal median $705 · difference $84
Nov 12 – Nov 18 · 6 nights
SAS1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $707–$867
- Board rank
- Stronger than 28%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPRGPragueA fairy-tale skyline priced like a spreadsheet error — Central Europe’s best value, full stop.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsVáclav Havel (PRG)All routes into PragueWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Nov is the cheapest for NYC → PRG. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $621 and peak in December near $1,369 — a $748 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 9 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under SAS, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $621 for 6,572 km each way, that works out to about $47 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Prague, this fare ranks 3rd — 9% above the $571 from Toronto. For context, the middle fare among the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of New York is $584.
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 10% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $838 then versus $756 now, across 5 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 $563, on Oct 2.
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 $621
12% below the $705 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · New York → Prague · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Václav Havel (PRG)
- Flight time
- ~9 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,572 km each way
- Typical price
- $705 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- SAS
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
NYC → PRG, answered.
Is $621 a good price for New York to Prague?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $705 round-trip and this fare is 12% under it, about $84. 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 Prague?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Prague are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book NYC → Prague?
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, 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 Prague?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under SAS. 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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