Route brief · NYC → SEL
New York → Seoul
$809
−12% vs typical
seasonal median $920 · difference $111
Nov 2 – Nov 21 · 19 nights
Air PremiaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $867–$953
- Board rank
- Stronger than 28%
- Route sample
- 10 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSELSeoulPalaces wedged between skyscrapers, barbecue smoke at midnight, cafés that outnumber people.Best windowApr–May · Sep–OctAirportsIncheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP)All routes into SeoulWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 10 months, Nov is the cheapest for NYC → SEL. Best time to be there: Apr–May · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $809 and peak in February near $1,058 — a $249 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Air Premia nonstop and takes about 15.5 hours outbound, on a 19-night trip. At $809 for 11,052 km each way, that works out to about $37 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 26 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Seoul, this fare ranks 18th — 1.6× the $505 we hold from Athens. For context, the middle fare among the 23 routes of similar length we watch out of New York is $717.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,020 then versus $867 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 $801, on Sep 16.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 13 of 93 days priced, from 65 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Nov · around $809
12% below the $920 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · New York → Seoul · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP)
- Flight time
- ~15.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~11,052 km each way
- Typical price
- $920 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air Premia
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
NYC → SEL, answered.
Is $809 a good price for New York to Seoul?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $920 round-trip and this fare is 12% under it, about $111. 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 Seoul?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Seoul are Apr–May · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book NYC → Seoul?
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, 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 Seoul?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Air Premia). The outbound leg runs around 15.5 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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