Route brief · SEL → SGN
Seoul → Ho Chi Minh City
$172
−24% vs typical
seasonal median $225 · difference $53
Sep 28 – Oct 14 · 16 nights
Sun PhuQuoc AirwaysNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $193–$283
- Board rank
- Stronger than 66%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSGNHo Chi Minh CityFaster and richer than Hanoi, and the usual door to the Mekong Delta and the southern coast.Best windowDec–MarAirportsTan Son Nhat (SGN)All routes into Ho Chi Minh CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Sep is the cheapest for SEL → SGN. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares bottom out in September around $172 and peak in February near $461 — a $289 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Sun PhuQuoc Airways nonstop and takes about 5.5 hours outbound, on a 16-night trip. At $172 for 3,601 km each way, that works out to about $24 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $39 that medium-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Ho Chi Minh City, this fare ranks 2nd — 13% above the $152 from Shanghai.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $221 then versus $210 now, across 6 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 $129, on Sep 7.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 18 of 122 days priced, from 43 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
December 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $172
24% below the $225 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Seoul → Ho Chi Minh City · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP) ↔ Tan Son Nhat (SGN)
- Flight time
- ~5.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,601 km each way
- Typical price
- $225 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Sun PhuQuoc Airways
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
SEL → SGN, answered.
Is $172 a good price for Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $225 round-trip. At $172 you're 24% below that, saving about $53, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Ho Chi Minh City are Dec–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SEL → Ho Chi Minh City?
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, Sep 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 Ho Chi Minh City?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Sun PhuQuoc Airways). The outbound leg runs around 5.5 hours.
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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