Route brief · SEL → MNL
Seoul → Manila
$184
−16% vs typical
seasonal median $220 · difference $36
Mar 12 '27 – Mar 16 '27 · 4 nights
Cebu PacificNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $208–$244
- Board rank
- Stronger than 42%
- Route sample
- 8 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 8 months, Mar is the cheapest for SEL → MNL. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in March around $184 and peak in April near $314 — a $130 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Cebu Pacific nonstop and takes about 4.5 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip. At $184 for 2,621 km each way, that works out to about $35 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Manila, this fare ranks 3rd — 5% above the $176 from Kuala Lumpur.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 27 · $184 (16% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $221 then versus $225 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 $180, on Nov 26.
Cheapest in Mar · around $184
16% below the $220 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Seoul → Manila · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP) ↔ Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)
- Flight time
- ~4.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,621 km each way
- Typical price
- $220 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Cebu Pacific
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
SEL → MNL, answered.
Is $184 a good price for Seoul to Manila?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $220 round-trip and this fare is 16% under it, about $36. 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 Manila?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Mar 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 SEL → 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 8 months of cached fares, Mar 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 Manila?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Cebu Pacific). The outbound leg runs around 4.5 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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