Route brief · SEL → MEL
Seoul → Melbourne
$609
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 10 – Sep 24 · 14 nights
China Eastern1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMELMelbourneLaneway coffee, four seasons before lunch, and the Great Ocean Road starting an hour down the coast.Best windowMar–May · Sep–NovAirportsTullamarine (MEL) · Avalon (AVV)All routes into MelbourneWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Melbourne: Mar–May · Sep–Nov. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $609 for 8,583 km each way, that works out to about $35 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Melbourne, this fare ranks 5th — 39% above the $438 from Bangkok. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 45 routes of similar length we watch out of Seoul, where the middle fare is $681. We have 3 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $591 then versus $617 now, across 4 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 $572, on Aug 29.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP) ↔ Tullamarine (MEL) · Avalon (AVV)
- Flight time
- ~13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,583 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
SEL → MEL, answered.
How far in advance should I book SEL → Melbourne?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Seoul to Melbourne?
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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