Los Angeles → Paris flights

LAX–CDG: Target $301–$321 and book before prices near $334

Key takeaways

• Median fare is $321 across 30 daily snapshots — a reliable anchor for budgeting this route.
• Bottom-quartile fares reached $301 (p25), meaning roughly one in four days offered prices at or below that level.
• The absolute low was $281, but at the high end fares climbed to $334 — a spread of about $53 (19%).
• A 19% spread means meaningful savings are possible, but this is not a wildly volatile route — you won't find fares half the median price.
• Set a fare alert around $305–$310 to catch a genuine dip without gambling on the $281 floor recurring.

30-day price trend

See full numbers and stats on the LAX → CDG price history page.

The full picture

The LAX–Paris route is showing a relatively tight but meaningfully navigable price band. With a median of $321 and 50% of observations falling between $301 and $325 (p25–p75), the middle of this market is compact — most days the cheapest available fare lands within about $24 of the median. That's actually good news for travelers: you don't need to obsessively monitor prices every hour, because dramatic intraday swings are not what this data reflects. The $281 low is real, but it's an outlier floor, not a recurring opportunity.

On the booking horizon, a 19% spread gives you some reason to wait for softening rather than buying at the first price you see. If you're tracking this route and the fare is sitting near $325–$334 (approaching the p75 or high), that's a signal you're catching a peak in the current snapshot window — not an emergency to buy immediately. Conversely, anything at or below $305 is demonstrably in the bottom quartile of recent pricing and worth locking in promptly. There is no carrier-level data in this snapshot set to confirm which airline is driving the low-end fares, so we can't make a meaningful recommendation about which operator to favor.

One honest caveat: these 30 snapshots capture cached fares within a specific pull window and do not represent all departure dates or booking lead times equally. Seasonality — peak summer travel to Paris in particular — can push fares well above this range, and holiday-adjacent dates may not be reflected here. Treat the $301–$321 band as a reasonable target for flexible travel, not a guarantee for any specific date you have in mind.

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