Los Angeles → Paris flights

LAX–CDG median sits at $411 — bottom quartile starts at $354

Key takeaways

• Median fare is $411, based on 30 daily snapshots of the cheapest available cached fares on this route.
• Bottom-quartile fares ($354 and below) represent roughly the cheapest 25% of observations — attainable but not the norm.
• The absolute low recorded was $351, just $3 below the p25 threshold, suggesting the floor is fairly consistent rather than a rare spike downward.
• Price spread is 23% between the low ($351) and high ($430), a moderate range meaning you're unlikely to dramatically overpay by booking at an average moment — but patience can still save ~$60–$80.
• The interquartile range is tight ($354–$416), indicating most fares cluster in a roughly $60 band; dramatic last-minute drops are not evident in this data.

30-day price trend

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

The full picture

The 30-day snapshot picture for LAX to CDG is one of relative stability with a moderate price corridor. The median of $411 sits close to the p75 of $416, which tells you that fares spend more time near the top of their range than near the bottom. The low end — $351 to $354 — does appear, but it occupies only the bottom quartile of observations, meaning you'd need to monitor consistently and move quickly to land there. A spread of 23% is meaningful but not dramatic; this isn't a route where fares swing wildly by hundreds of dollars overnight.

For booking timing, the clustering of fares in the $354–$416 band suggests that the window for genuinely low prices is narrow. Routes between major hubs like Los Angeles and Paris tend to see their softest fares when airlines are filling capacity ahead of slower travel periods — typically outside peak summer and holiday windows. Because the data floor ($351) is barely below the p25 ($354), the cheapest fares don't appear to be isolated flukes; they reflect a real, if infrequent, pricing tier worth watching for. Setting a fare alert at or below $370 would position you to act when prices dip meaningfully below the median without waiting for an unlikely sub-$351 outlier.

No dominant carrier pattern is identifiable from this dataset, so carrier-specific advice would be speculation. The honest caveat here is that 30 snapshots capture a single rolling window — they don't account for seasonal demand shifts, fuel surcharge changes, or capacity adjustments that could move the entire price band up or down. Treat the $411 median as a reliable reference point for current conditions, not a guarantee of what you'll find three or four months out.

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