Route brief · ZRH → HAN
Zurich → Hanoi
$667
−22% vs typical
seasonal median $850 · difference $183
Sep 14 – Sep 21 · 7 nights
Etihad1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $789–$912
- Board rank
- Stronger than 61%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHANHanoiOld-quarter alleys, motorbike tides and the country’s best food — and Ha Long Bay two hours out.Best windowOct–Nov · Mar–AprAirportsNoi Bai (HAN)All routes into HanoiWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Sep is the cheapest for ZRH → HAN. Best time to be there: Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr.
Fares bottom out in September around $667 and peak in December near $957 — a $290 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $667 for 8,830 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Hanoi, this fare ranks 17th — 43% above the $468 from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 36 routes of similar length we watch out of Zurich, where the middle fare is $803.
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 12% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $788 then versus $879 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 $662, on Sep 22.
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 $667
22% below the $850 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Zurich → Hanoi · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Zurich (ZRH) ↔ Noi Bai (HAN)
- Flight time
- ~13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,830 km each way
- Typical price
- $850 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr
ZRH → HAN, answered.
Is $667 a good price for Zurich to Hanoi?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $850 round-trip. At $667 you're 22% below that, saving about $183, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Zurich to Hanoi?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Hanoi are Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book ZRH → Hanoi?
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 5 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 Zurich to Hanoi?
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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