Route brief · WAS → HKT
Washington → Phuket
$1,001
−20% vs typical
seasonal median $1,250 · difference $249
Sep 21 – Sep 30 · 9 nights
Etihad1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,114–$1,248
- Board rank
- Stronger than 55%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHKTPhuketThailand’s busiest beach island — crowded where the road goes, empty where the boat does.Best windowNov–MarAirportsPhuket (HKT)All routes into PhuketWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Sep is the cheapest for WAS → HKT. Best time to be there: Nov–Mar.
Fares bottom out in September around $1,001 and peak in December near $1,620 — a $619 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 20 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,001 for 14,784 km each way, that works out to about $34 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Phuket, this fare ranks 6th — 2.1× the $488 we hold from San Francisco. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 26 routes of similar length we watch out of Washington, where the middle fare is $1,001.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 26% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,331 then versus $986 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 $968, on Sep 30.
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 $1,001
20% below the $1,250 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Washington → Phuket · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ Phuket (HKT)
- Flight time
- ~20 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~14,784 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,250 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
WAS → HKT, answered.
Is $1,001 a good price for Washington to Phuket?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $1,250 round-trip. At $1,001 you're 20% below that, saving about $249, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Washington to Phuket?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Phuket are Nov–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book WAS → Phuket?
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 4 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 Washington to Phuket?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Etihad. 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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