New York → Zurich flights

JFK–Zurich fares cluster near $328, but watch for $202 dips

Key takeaways

• $328 median fare across all 30 sampled days in the window
• Middle half of fares fell between $283 and $336 — a fairly tight band
• Low end hit $202, suggesting occasional deep discounts worth watching for
• High end reached $427, more than double the cheapest fare seen
• Spread of 111% between low and high signals real volatility despite the tight middle band

30-day price trend

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The full picture

Over the last 30 days, every day in the window had a cached fare, giving a solid 30-sample read on JFK–Zurich pricing. The median sits at $328, and the middle half of fares — from $283 to $336 — is fairly narrow, meaning a typical booking attempt is likely to land close to that range rather than at the extremes.

The extremes matter here, though. A $202 low was recorded somewhere in the window, well below the p25 mark of $283, while a $427 high pushed more than $90 past the p75 threshold. That gap — a 111% spread between low and high — tells us this route sees occasional sharp discounts and occasional price spikes, even though most days cluster tightly around the median. The data doesn't show which calendar dates produced the low or high, so we can't point to a specific departure date or weekday pattern; it only shows that the full range existed somewhere across the 30-day window.

Given that, the practical takeaway is to treat $328 as your benchmark fare and watch for anything meaningfully below the $283 p25 line as a good opportunity to book — those lower fares do show up. Paying near or above $400 puts you in the top quartile of observed prices, so it's worth holding off if you see a quote that high unless your travel dates are fixed. We don't have airline-level or day-of-week detail in this dataset, so we can't say whether a particular carrier or departure day drives the cheaper fares — only that the range exists. The honest caveat: with no visibility into *when* within the 30 days the low and high fares occurred, this is a guide to the general price landscape on this route, not a prediction of what you'll see on any single search.

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