Route brief · ROM → HKT
Rome → Phuket
$526
−14% vs typical
seasonal median $610 · difference $84
Nov 29 – Dec 7 · 8 nights
China Eastern1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $526–$617
- Board rank
- Stronger than 35%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHKTPhuketThailand’s busiest beach island — crowded where the road goes, empty where the boat does.Best windowNov–MarAirportsPhuket (HKT)All routes into PhuketWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Nov is the cheapest for ROM → HKT. Best time to be there: Nov–Mar.
Fares bottom out in November around $526 and peak in February near $686 — a $160 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 17.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $526 for 9,075 km each way, that works out to about $29 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Phuket, this fare ranks 9th — 12% above the $469 from Sydney. It is also the cheapest of the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of Rome.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 29 · $526 (19% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $648 then versus $650 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 $525, on Nov 30.
Cheapest in Nov · around $526
14% below the $610 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Rome → Phuket · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA) ↔ Phuket (HKT)
- Flight time
- ~17.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,075 km each way
- Typical price
- $610 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
ROM → HKT, answered.
Is $526 a good price for Rome to Phuket?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $610 round-trip and this fare is 14% 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 Rome to Phuket?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 ROM → 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 6 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 Rome to Phuket?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Eastern. 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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