Route brief · VIE → KIX
Vienna → Osaka
$889
−20% vs typical
seasonal median $1,110 · difference $221
Sep 15 – Oct 14 · 29 nights
Air Arabia2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $981–$1,226
- Board rank
- Stronger than 55%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefKIXOsakaJapan with the volume up — street food, blunt humour, and Kyoto and Nara both under an hour by train.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsKansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)All routes into OsakaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Sep is the cheapest for VIE → KIX. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in September around $889 and peak in December near $1,362 — a $473 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 18 hours outbound, on a 29-night trip — ticketed under Air Arabia, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $889 for 9,008 km each way, that works out to about $49 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 32 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Osaka, this fare ranks 19th — 1.8× the $498 we hold from San Francisco. For context, the middle fare among the 37 routes of similar length we watch out of Vienna is $696.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $976 then versus $952 now, across 6 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 $880, on Sep 3.
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 Sep · around $889
20% below the $1,110 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Vienna → Osaka · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Schwechat (VIE) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ~18 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,008 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,110 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air Arabia
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
VIE → KIX, answered.
Is $889 a good price for Vienna to Osaka?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $1,110 round-trip. At $889 you're 20% below that, saving about $221, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Vienna to Osaka?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Osaka are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book VIE → Osaka?
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 7 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 Vienna to Osaka?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Arabia. 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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