Route brief · SEL → AUH
Seoul → Abu Dhabi
$583
−27% vs typical
seasonal median $800 · difference $217
Nov 5 – Nov 16 · 11 nights
China Eastern1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $719–$802
- Board rank
- Stronger than 73%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefAUHAbu DhabiQuieter and cheaper than Dubai an hour up the road, with the Grand Mosque and the Louvre to itself.Best windowNov–MarAirportsZayed International (AUH)All routes into Abu DhabiWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Nov is the cheapest for SEL → AUH. Best time to be there: Nov–Mar.
Fares bottom out in November around $583 and peak in October near $810 — a $227 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 11-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $583 for 6,904 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 14 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Abu Dhabi, this fare ranks 10th — 2.3× the $253 we hold from London. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 28 routes of similar length we watch out of Seoul, where the middle fare is $620.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 19% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $804 then versus $655 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 $554, on Nov 9.
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 Nov · around $583
27% below the $800 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Seoul → Abu Dhabi · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP) ↔ Zayed International (AUH)
- Flight time
- ~13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,904 km each way
- Typical price
- $800 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
SEL → AUH, answered.
Is $583 a good price for Seoul to Abu Dhabi?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $800 round-trip. At $583 you're 27% below that, saving about $217, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Seoul to Abu Dhabi?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Abu Dhabi are Nov–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SEL → Abu Dhabi?
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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Seoul to Abu Dhabi?
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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