Route brief · NYC → WAS
New York → Washington
$236
−7% vs typical
seasonal median $255 · difference $19
Sep 4 – Sep 12 · 8 nights
Frontier Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $239–$268
- Board rank
- Stronger than 11%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefWASWashingtonFree museums by the dozen, and three airports competing hard enough to keep transatlantic fares honest.Best windowApr–May · Sep–OctAirportsDulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI)All routes into WashingtonWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Sep is the cheapest for NYC → WAS. Best time to be there: Apr–May · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $236 and peak in February near $277 — a $41 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Frontier Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 21% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $207 then versus $250 now, across 8 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 $174, on Sep 10.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 11 of 93 days priced, from 33 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $236
7% below the $255 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · New York → Washington · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI)
- Flight time
- ~5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~328 km each way
- Typical price
- $255 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Frontier Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
NYC → WAS, answered.
Is $236 a good price for New York to Washington?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $255 round-trip and this fare is 7% under it, about $19. 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 Washington?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Washington are Apr–May · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book NYC → Washington?
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, Sep 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 Washington?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Frontier Airlines. 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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