RareNonstop · 3h
TYO to SELSouth Korea
Seoul
$112
usually $225
−50%
Most monthly lows $190–$228. Cheaper than every other month on record (9).
Flights · TYO → DXB
Tokyo to Dubai
Best fare, round trip
$839
−5%
below its usual $885
you keep $46
Found
- Depart
- Sun 28 Feb
- Return
- Wed 3 Mar
- Stay
- 3 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 13.5h
- Airline
Air China
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $876 and $912. The drop beats 5% of measured fares on the board, over 5 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
UAEDubaiFuture-city skyline, desert dunes, winter sun on tap — and Emirates sales twice a year.Best windowNov–MarAirportsDXB · Al Maktoum (DWC)Every route into DubaiFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in October around $823 and peak in January near $994, 21% dearer, across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $839 for 7,930 km each way, that works out to about $53 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Dubai, this fare ranks 7th — 2.4× the $352 we hold from Shanghai. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 33 routes of similar length we watch out of Tokyo, where the middle fare is $938. The best time to be in Dubai: Nov–Mar.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: 18 Oct, $823
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 16% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $791 then versus $918 now, across 18 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 $323, on 22 Oct.
October 2026
1314151617Sunday 18 October: $823, the cheapest day in view. Compare fares from this day.1920Wednesday 21 October: $943, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 22 October: $856, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.2324252627Wednesday 28 October: $896, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.29Friday 30 October: $949, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.31
November 2026
1Monday 2 November: $925, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.345678Monday 9 November: $970, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 10 November: $904, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 11 November: $958, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.12Friday 13 November: $1k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 14 November: $1.1k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.15Monday 16 November: $912, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.17Wednesday 18 November: $912, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.1920212223Tuesday 24 November: $973, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.252627282930
December 2026
Tuesday 1 December: $897, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 2 December: $876, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.3Friday 4 December: $843, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.567Tuesday 8 December: $913, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.9101112131415161718Saturday 19 December: $847, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.202122232425262728Tuesday 29 December: $990, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 30 December: $1.2k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 31 December: $918, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.
January 2027
12345678Saturday 9 January: $1k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.10111213141516171819202122232425262728293031
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualCached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026 · bands from 94 tracked fares
Cheapest in Oct, around $823
7% below the $885 typical fare
$823Oct, the cheapest month. Compare October fares.$904Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$843Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$994Jan ’27, above the usual price. Compare January fares.$839Feb, below the usual price. Compare February fares.
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualPress a month to compare its fares
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Tokyo to Dubai, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND) ↔ DXB · Al Maktoum (DWC)
- Flight time
- ≈13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈7,930 km each way
- Typical price
- $885 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
Good to know
TYO → DXB, answered.
Is $839 a good price for Tokyo to Dubai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $885 round-trip and this fare is 5% under it. 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 Tokyo to Dubai?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Dubai are Nov–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book TYO → Dubai?
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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Tokyo to Dubai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air China. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
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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