Route brief · ROM → WAS
Rome → Washington
$640
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 14 – Nov 21 · 7 nights
Icelandair1 stop
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.
Best time to be in Washington: Apr–May · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Icelandair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $640 for 7,218 km each way, that works out to about $44 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Washington, this fare ranks 7th — 48% above the $432 from London. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 20 routes of similar length we watch out of Rome, where the middle fare is $700. We have 3 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 21% lower than when tracking began on Aug 9 — $863 then versus $679 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 $469, on Oct 15.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA) ↔ Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI)
- Flight time
- ~12 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,218 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Icelandair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
ROM → WAS, answered.
How far in advance should I book ROM → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Rome to Washington?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Icelandair. 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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