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IAH–FRA fares ran a median of $361 over 29 days; the bottom quartile stayed near $355, so booking when fares dip toward that range pays off.

Houston–FRA: median $361, but outliers push fares to $550

Key takeaways

Median fare of $361 across 29 daily snapshots — a solid baseline for budgeting this route.
Bottom quartile (p25) sits at $355, just below median, meaning a chunk of observed fares clustered tightly near the low end.
75th percentile at $428 shows fares often jump $60-70 above median rather than drifting gradually.
High of $550 vs. low of $329 — a 67% spread, meaning timing matters more on this route than on tighter-spread markets.
No dominant carrier was identifiable in the data, so we can't attribute the swings to a specific airline's pricing behavior.

30-day price trend

IAH → FRA · cheapest cached fare per day · last 29 days · ↓ 23%

$329 low$550 high

See full numbers and stats on the IAH → FRA price history page.

The full picture

Over 29 days of cached fare snapshots, IAH–FRA round-trip prices ranged from $329 to $550, with a median of $361. That's a 67% spread between low and high — wide enough that where you land in the booking window matters more than it would on a tighter-spread route. The fact that the 25th percentile ($355) sits close to the median ($361) suggests that cheap fares weren't rare flukes; a meaningful share of snapshots clustered near the low end. But the jump to $428 at the 75th percentile, and all the way to $550 at the high end, shows that a sizable minority of fares spike well above typical pricing.

We don't have enough granularity in this dataset to pinpoint which part of the booking horizon (e.g., 2 months out vs. 2 weeks out) tends to soften fares — the snapshots capture a rolling 30-day window of cached cheapest fares, not a full booking curve from search to departure. What we can say is that if you see a fare close to the $329–$361 range, that's consistent with the lower half of what this route has actually produced recently, and waiting for something near $428 or above is buying into the upper quartile territory.

No single carrier dominated the cached results clearly enough to draw conclusions about airline-specific pricing patterns or day-of-week effects, so we won't speculate there. The honest caveat: with 29 daily samples, this is a decent but not exhaustive picture of one route's recent pricing behavior — it reflects what cheapest-fare caches showed over roughly a month, not a long-term seasonal trend. Treat the $355–$428 range as a reasonable target zone, and treat anything near $550 as an outlier worth skipping if you have flexibility.

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Why we regenerated this article: Median fare ↓ 15% ($424 → $361). We only rewrite when the underlying price index actually moves — stable weeks keep the previous take.

AI-authored from this route's 30-day price index. Article last regenerated Oct 17, 2026. Fares shift continuously — confirm at booking.