Route brief · WAS → FRA
Washington → Frankfurt
$690
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 18 – Oct 25 · 7 nights
SAS1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefFRAFrankfurtBanking towers and a river beach — mostly a place people change planes, which is exactly why fares through it are cheap.Best windowMay–SepAirportsFrankfurt (FRA) · Hahn (HHN)All routes into FrankfurtWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Frankfurt: May–Sep. 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 9.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under SAS, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $690 for 6,526 km each way, that works out to about $53 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Frankfurt, this fare ranks 7th — 32% above the $524 from Miami. For context, the middle fare among the 29 routes of similar length we watch out of Washington is $644. We have 3 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.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 6% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $837 then versus $887 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 $512, on Nov 2.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 11 of 93 days priced, from 21 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Route facts
- Airports
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ Frankfurt (FRA) · Hahn (HHN)
- Flight time
- ~9.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,526 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- SAS
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
WAS → FRA, answered.
How far in advance should I book WAS → Frankfurt?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Washington to Frankfurt?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under SAS. 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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