Dallas → Cancun flights

Budget $112–123 for Dallas–Cancún; floor sits near $92

Key takeaways

• Median fare is $118, with the middle 50% of observed prices clustering tightly between $112 and $123 — a spread of just $11.
• The floor of $92 represents genuine outlier pricing; don't anchor your plans to it, but set a fare alert at that level.
• The high of $217 — nearly 2.4× the median — signals that waiting too long or searching during demand spikes carries real cost.
• The 136% spread between low and high is wide, but the interquartile range is narrow, meaning bargains and disasters are both tail events.
• With 30 daily snapshots supporting these figures, the central estimates are reliable; the extremes reflect genuine market volatility, not data noise.

30-day price trend

See full numbers and stats on the DFW → CUN price history page.

The full picture

The Dallas–Cancún market tells two different stories depending on which number you focus on. The headline spread of 136% — from $92 to $217 — looks dramatic, but the interquartile range tells a calmer story: fully half of all observed fares landed between $112 and $123, just an $11 window around the $118 median. That compression suggests this is a fairly competitive, well-supplied route where most shoppers who pay attention will land close to median rather than at either extreme.

The $92 floor is real — it appeared in 30 days of cached fare snapshots — but treating it as the target price is a mistake. It likely reflects a brief promotional window, a specific low-demand departure day, or an inventory clearance moment that cleared quickly. A more useful anchor is the $112 p25 threshold: if you see a fare at or below that level, you're beating three-quarters of observed prices and should book with confidence. Conversely, the $217 high is a warning about what complacency costs — last-minute searches or searches during school-holiday demand windows can push fares nearly double the norm.

On booking timing, the tight interquartile range implies that fares on this route don't slowly drift upward in a predictable linear way; rather, they spend most of their time near median and occasionally spike or dip sharply. That pattern rewards shoppers who set fare alerts at roughly $112 and book promptly when prices hit that level, rather than waiting and hoping for a further drop. The data doesn't surface a dominant carrier or clear day-of-week signal, so carrier-specific strategies aren't supportable here. One honest caveat: these snapshots capture the cheapest cached fare on each day, not booked prices — actual ticketed fares may differ slightly depending on seat availability at the time you search.

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