Los Angeles → Bali flights

LAX–Bali fares cluster near $318 — little room to game timing

Key takeaways

• Median fare sits at $318, based on 30 daily snapshots of cached fares
• Bottom quartile (25th percentile) is $317 — almost identical to the median, meaning cheap fares aren't rare outliers
• Top quartile reaches $348, just $30 above median, pointing to a fairly tight pricing band
• Low of $273 did appear in the data, suggesting occasional dips worth watching for, though they're not the norm
• 29% spread between low and high is moderate — enough to make waiting worthwhile, but not dramatic

30-day price trend

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

The full picture

Over the 30-day window we tracked, LAX–Bali fares have stayed fairly close to their median of $318, with the middle 50% of observations falling between $317 and $348. That narrow band between the median and the 25th percentile is notable — it means a "typical good price" and a "cheap price" are nearly the same number, so travelers don't need to hunt for rare bargains to get a reasonable fare. The $273 low does show that deeper discounts surface occasionally, but they sit meaningfully below the rest of the distribution rather than being part of a regular pattern.

With a 29% spread between low and high, there's some incentive to monitor fares rather than book the instant you start planning, but this isn't a route where prices swing wildly. We don't have booking-lead-time data here — only a 30-day snapshot of cached fares — so we can't say whether booking 2 months out beats booking 2 weeks out. What the data does support is a general strategy: treat anything at or below $318 as a fair deal, and treat $273-ish fares as a genuine win if you happen to catch one.

We don't have visibility into a dominant carrier or day-of-week effects for this route from the current data, so we won't speculate on which airline or weekday tends to run cheaper. The honest takeaway: this is a moderately stable route price-wise, the spread (29%) isn't small enough to call it "flat," but it's also not volatile enough to justify obsessive fare-watching. Set a target near the median, watch for a few weeks, and book when you see a fare at or below $318.

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