Route brief · WAS → PAR
Washington → Paris
$370
−45% vs typical
seasonal median $675 · difference $305
Oct 19 – Oct 22 · 3 nights
SAS1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $578–$723
- Board rank
- Stronger than 93%
- 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 WAS → PAR. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $370 and peak in May near $723 — a $353 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 10 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under SAS, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $370 for 6,166 km each way, that works out to about $30 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Paris, this fare ranks 3rd — 42% above the $261 from Abu Dhabi. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 26 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 1% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $858 then versus $850 now, across 4 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 $443, on Oct 7.
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 Oct · around $370
45% below the $675 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Washington → Paris · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ Charles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY)
- Flight time
- ~10 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,166 km each way
- Typical price
- $675 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- SAS
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
WAS → PAR, answered.
Is $370 a good price for Washington to Paris?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $675 round-trip. At $370 you're 45% below that, saving about $305, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Washington 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 WAS → 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 Washington to Paris?
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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