Route brief · YTO → AMS
Toronto → Amsterdam
$492
−11% vs typical
seasonal median $550 · difference $58
Sep 29 – Oct 6 · 7 nights
Air Canada1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $535–$602
- Board rank
- Stronger than 24%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefAMSAmsterdamCanals, Vermeers and bicycles with right of way. KLM’s network makes it a deal-alert regular.Best windowApr–May · SepAirportsSchiphol (AMS)All routes into AmsterdamWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Sep is the cheapest for YTO → AMS. Best time to be there: Apr–May · Sep.
Fares bottom out in September around $492 and peak in March near $715 — a $223 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 8 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Air Canada, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $492 for 5,981 km each way, that works out to about $41 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Amsterdam, this fare ranks 4th — 1.7× the $283 we hold from Dubai. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 27 routes of similar length we watch out of Toronto, where the middle fare is $564.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $542 then versus $517 now, across 5 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 $424, on Nov 14.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 101 days priced, from 48 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Sep · around $492
11% below the $550 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Toronto → Amsterdam · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pearson (YYZ) · Billy Bishop (YTZ) ↔ Schiphol (AMS)
- Flight time
- ~8 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,981 km each way
- Typical price
- $550 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air Canada
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep
YTO → AMS, answered.
Is $492 a good price for Toronto to Amsterdam?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $550 round-trip and this fare is 11% under it, about $58. 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 Toronto to Amsterdam?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Amsterdam are Apr–May · Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book YTO → Amsterdam?
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, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Toronto to Amsterdam?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Canada. 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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