Los Angeles → Honolulu flights

Target $132–$137 for LAX–HNL — the floor sits around $105

Key takeaways

• Median fare is $137 — half of all 30 daily snapshots came in at or below this price.
• Bottom quartile starts at $132, meaning 25% of days showed fares at or under that level — a realistic target for deal-seekers.
• The floor was $105, but that represents the single cheapest snapshot; treat it as an occasional outlier, not a reliable baseline.
• Spread is 62% ($105–$170), which is wide for a short domestic hop — suggesting meaningful fare volatility and real upside to shopping around.
• $141 is the p75 mark — if you're seeing fares above that, you're in the pricier quartile and waiting or adjusting dates is worth considering.

30-day price trend

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

The full picture

Los Angeles to Honolulu is a competitive leisure corridor, and the 30-day fare snapshot reflects that: a $137 median with a tight interquartile range of just $9 ($132–$141) tells you that on most days, this route prices within a narrow band. That's actually useful — it means you're unlikely to get badly burned by booking on a random day, but it also means the genuine deals are exceptions, not the norm. The $105 low is real, but it surfaced in only a fraction of snapshots; budget for the $130s and treat anything under $115 as a genuine win.

The 62% spread between the observed low and high ($105 to $170) is notably wide for a roughly five-hour domestic route. That gap is most likely driven by demand surges around holidays and peak summer weeks pushing fares toward $170, while off-peak or promotional windows pull them toward $105. The practical implication: if your travel dates are flexible, checking fares across a two- to three-week window of potential departure dates will expose you to more of that variance than any single search will. Booking four to six weeks out tends to catch fares before last-minute leisure demand firms up pricing on this route.

There is no carrier-level data in this snapshot to confirm whether a dominant airline is driving the floor or the ceiling, so airline-specific timing advice would be speculative here. One honest caveat: 30 daily snapshots capture a single rolling window and may not reflect seasonal peaks like spring break or the holidays — fares during those periods could sit structurally above the $141 p75 shown here. Use this range as a benchmark for typical travel periods, not a guarantee year-round.

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