ExceptionalNonstop · 1.5h
SFO to LASUnited States
Las Vegas
$61
usually $155
−61%
Most monthly lows $130–$295. Cheaper than every other month on record (5).
Flights · SFO → DXB
San Francisco to Dubai
Best fare, round trip
$837
−11%
below its usual $945
you keep $108
Found
- Depart
- Tue 10 Nov
- Return
- Sat 21 Nov
- Stay
- 11 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 18h
- Airline
KLM
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $914 and $945. The drop beats 25% of measured fares on the board, over 4 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
UAEDubaiFuture-city skyline, desert dunes, winter sun on tap — and Emirates sales twice a year.Best windowNov–MarAirportsDXB · Al Maktoum (DWC)Every route into DubaiFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in November around $837 and peak in April near $971, 16% dearer, across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 18 hours outbound, on a 11-night trip — ticketed under KLM, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $837 for 13,008 km each way, that works out to about $32 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Dubai, this fare ranks 10th — 1.7× the $479 we hold from Houston. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 34 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco, where the middle fare is $890. The best time to be in Dubai: Nov–Mar.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on 8 Aug — $983 then versus $983 now, across 18 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 $648, on 16 Oct.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 10 of 111 days priced, from 70 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
123Wednesday 4 November: $902. Compare fares from this day.56Saturday 7 November: $882. Compare fares from this day.89Tuesday 10 November: $837. Compare fares from this day.11121314151617Wednesday 18 November: $1k. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 19 November: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.Friday 20 November: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.21222324252627282930
December 2026
1234567Tuesday 8 December: $943. Compare fares from this day.910111213141516171819202122232425262728Tuesday 29 December: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 30 December: $1.2k. Compare fares from this day.31
January 2027
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Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $837
11% below the $945 typical fare
$914Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$837Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$943Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$971Apr ’27, around the usual price. Compare April fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, San Francisco to Dubai, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ DXB · Al Maktoum (DWC)
- Flight time
- ≈18 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈13,008 km each way
- Typical price
- $945 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- KLM
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
Good to know
SF → DXB, answered.
Is $837 a good price for San Francisco to Dubai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $945 round-trip and this fare is 11% under it. 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 San Francisco to Dubai?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Dubai are Nov–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SF → Dubai?
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 4 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from San Francisco to Dubai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under KLM. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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