Route brief · SYD → PAR
Sydney → Paris
$1,142
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 31 – Nov 8 · 8 nights
China Eastern1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPARParisStill the benchmark. Croissant inflation is real, but a $380 crossing fixes the math.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsCharles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY)All routes into ParisWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Paris: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct. 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 23 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,142 for 16,960 km each way, that works out to about $34 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of Sydney, where the middle fare is $1,340. We have 2 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 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 12% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,377 then versus $1,210 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 $1,142, on Oct 31.
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
- Kingsford Smith (SYD) ↔ Charles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY)
- Flight time
- ~23 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~16,960 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
SYD → PAR, answered.
How far in advance should I book SYD → Paris?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Sydney to Paris?
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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