
SYD to SGNVietnam
Ho Chi Minh City
$364
usually $605
−40%
Most monthly lows $480–$735. Cheaper than every other month on record (7).
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Flights · SYD → HAN
Best fare, round trip
$484
−45%
below its usual $885
you keep $401
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $487 and $885. The drop beats 93% of measured fares on the board, over 4 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
VietnamHanoiOld-quarter alleys, motorbike tides and the country’s best food — and Ha Long Bay two hours out.Best windowOct–Nov · Mar–AprAirportsNoi Bai (HAN)Every route into HanoiFare seasonality
Fares bottom out in November around $484 and peak in December near $1,136, 135% dearer, across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under Xiamen Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $484 for 7,767 km each way, that works out to about $31 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 18 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Hanoi, this fare ranks 3rd — 4% above the $467 from Brussels. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 18 routes of similar length we watch out of Sydney, where the middle fare is $536. The best time to be in Hanoi: Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 145% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $470 then versus $1,151 now, across 14 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 $380, on 26 Oct.
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.
Cheapest in Nov, around $484
45% below the $885 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Sydney to Hanoi, from cached prices.
Route facts
Good to know
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $885 round-trip. At $484 you're 45% below that, which we rate rare for this route.
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Hanoi are Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 4 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Xiamen Airlines. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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