Route brief · SFO → MNL
San Francisco → Manila
$398
−4% vs typical
seasonal median $415 · difference $17
Jan 8 '27 – Feb 8 '27 · 31 nights
Asiana Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $416–$660
- Board rank
- Stronger than 4%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMNLManilaChaotic, warm and mostly a gateway — the islands worth the trip are a cheap domestic hop away.Best windowDec–AprAirportsNinoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)All routes into ManilaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Jan is the cheapest for SF → MNL. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in January around $398 and peak in June near $1,023 — a $625 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 17 hours outbound, on a 31-night trip — ticketed under Asiana Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $398 for 11,213 km each way, that works out to about $18 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $40 that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 28 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Manila, this is the cheapest right now — though Los Angeles is within a few dollars. It is also the cheapest of the 53 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 14% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $731 then versus $632 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 $401, on Oct 6.
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.
Cheapest in Jan · around $398
4% below the $415 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · San Francisco → Manila · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)
- Flight time
- ~17 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~11,213 km each way
- Typical price
- $415 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Asiana Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
SF → MNL, answered.
Is $398 a good price for San Francisco to Manila?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $415 round-trip and this fare is 4% under it, about $17. 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 Manila?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Manila are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SF → Manila?
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 9 months of cached fares, Jan comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from San Francisco to Manila?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Asiana 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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