Route brief · ZRH → MNL
Zurich → Manila
$679
−15% vs typical
seasonal median $795 · difference $116
Nov 16 – Nov 29 · 13 nights
Etihad1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $681–$829
- Board rank
- Stronger than 38%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMNLManilaChaotic, warm and mostly a gateway — the islands worth the trip are a cheap domestic hop away.Best windowDec–AprAirportsNinoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)All routes into ManilaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Nov is the cheapest for ZRH → MNL. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in November around $679 and peak in March near $869 — a $190 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 14.5 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $679 for 10,420 km each way, that works out to about $33 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 Manila, this fare ranks 14th — 1.7× the $398 we hold from San Francisco. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 33 routes of similar length we watch out of Zurich, where the middle fare is $811.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 18% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $851 then versus $698 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 $679, on Nov 16.
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 $679
15% below the $795 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Zurich → Manila · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Zurich (ZRH) ↔ Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)
- Flight time
- ~14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,420 km each way
- Typical price
- $795 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
ZRH → MNL, answered.
Is $679 a good price for Zurich to Manila?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $795 round-trip and this fare is 15% under it, about $116. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Zurich to Manila?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Manila are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book ZRH → Manila?
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, 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 Zurich to Manila?
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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