Route brief · WAS → LIM
Washington → Lima
$306
−42% vs typical
seasonal median $525 · difference $219
Nov 12 – Nov 17 · 5 nights
Copa Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $508–$566
- Board rank
- Stronger than 91%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefLIMLimaThe best restaurant city in South America, on a cliff above the Pacific — and the way to Cusco.Best windowDec–AprAirportsJorge Chávez (LIM)All routes into LimaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Nov is the cheapest for WAS → LIM. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in November around $306 and peak in August near $1,696 — a $1,390 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 8.5 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under Copa Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $306 for 5,664 km each way, that works out to about $27 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $39 that medium-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 8 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Lima, this is the cheapest right now — 11% under the next one, New York. It is also the cheapest of the 22 routes of similar length we watch out of Washington.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 6% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $546 then versus $514 now, across 8 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 $306, on Nov 12.
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 Nov · around $306
42% below the $525 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Washington → Lima · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ Jorge Chávez (LIM)
- Flight time
- ~8.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,664 km each way
- Typical price
- $525 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Copa Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
WAS → LIM, answered.
Is $306 a good price for Washington to Lima?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $525 round-trip. At $306 you're 42% below that, saving about $219, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Washington to Lima?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Lima are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book WAS → Lima?
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 9 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Washington to Lima?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Copa Airlines. 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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