Route brief · SEL → ROM
Seoul → Rome
$549
−21% vs typical
seasonal median $695 · difference $146
Oct 13 – Oct 22 · 9 nights
China Eastern1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $603–$743
- Board rank
- Stronger than 58%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefROMRomeTwenty-eight centuries of showing off. Shoulder-season fares make the Colosseum a weekend idea.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsFiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)All routes into RomeWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Oct is the cheapest for SEL → ROM. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $549 and peak in May near $885 — a $336 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 15 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $549 for 8,967 km each way, that works out to about $31 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rome, this fare ranks 5th — 54% above the $356 from Miami. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 47 routes of similar length we watch out of Seoul, where the middle fare is $694.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 12% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $657 then versus $734 now, across 7 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 $440, on Oct 31.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 93 days priced, from 40 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $549
21% below the $695 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Seoul → Rome · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP) ↔ Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)
- Flight time
- ~15 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,967 km each way
- Typical price
- $695 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
SEL → ROM, answered.
Is $549 a good price for Seoul to Rome?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $695 round-trip. At $549 you're 21% below that, saving about $146, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Seoul to Rome?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Rome are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SEL → Rome?
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 Rome?
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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