Route brief · TYO → PAR
Tokyo → Paris
$787
−18% vs typical
seasonal median $965 · difference $178
Oct 23 – Oct 30 · 7 nights
China Southern1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $940–$992
- Board rank
- Stronger than 49%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
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.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Oct is the cheapest for TYO → PAR. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $787 and peak in July near $1,035 — a $248 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 17.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under China Southern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $787 for 9,712 km each way, that works out to about $41 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Paris, this fare ranks 12th — 49% above the $527 from Kuala Lumpur. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 51 routes of similar length we watch out of Tokyo, where the middle fare is $1,015.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 10% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,050 then versus $943 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 $766, on Sep 8.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 12 of 122 days priced, from 27 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
December 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $787
18% below the $965 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Tokyo → Paris · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND) ↔ Charles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY)
- Flight time
- ~17.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,712 km each way
- Typical price
- $965 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Southern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
TYO → PAR, answered.
Is $787 a good price for Tokyo to Paris?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $965 round-trip and this fare is 18% under it, about $178. 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 Paris?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Paris are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book TYO → 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. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 6 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 Tokyo to Paris?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Southern. 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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