Route brief · SEL → AKL
Seoul → Auckland
$852
−1% vs typical
seasonal median $860 · difference $8
Oct 27 – Nov 5 · 9 nights
China Eastern2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $853–$906
- Board rank
- Stronger than 0%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefAKLAucklandA city built on fifty volcanoes between two harbours — and the start of every New Zealand road trip.Best windowNov–AprAirportsAuckland (AKL)All routes into AucklandWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Oct is the cheapest for SEL → AKL. Best time to be there: Nov–Apr.
Fares bottom out in October around $852 and peak in January near $1,113 — a $261 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 14.5 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $852 for 9,621 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 15 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Auckland, this fare ranks 11th — 48% above the $576 from Los Angeles. For context, the middle fare among the 45 routes of similar length we watch out of Seoul is $698.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 9% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $893 then versus $972 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 $689, on Aug 26.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 17 of 101 days priced, from 30 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $852
1% below the $860 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Seoul → Auckland · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP) ↔ Auckland (AKL)
- Flight time
- ~14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,621 km each way
- Typical price
- $860 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Apr
SEL → AKL, answered.
Is $852 a good price for Seoul to Auckland?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $860 round-trip and this fare is 1% under it, about $8. 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 Seoul to Auckland?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Auckland are Nov–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SEL → Auckland?
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 5 months of cached fares, Oct 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 Auckland?
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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