Los Angeles → Honolulu flights

LAX–Honolulu fares cluster near $122 — a genuinely tight market

Key takeaways

• Median fare sits at $122, with a bottom quartile of just $110
• Middle 50% of fares fall in a narrow $110–$130 band
• Observed range runs from $109 low to $172 high, so outliers do exist
• Overall spread of 58% reflects that high relative to the low, but most days price near the median
• No dominant carrier was identifiable in this dataset — comparisons across airlines are advised

30-day price trend

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

The full picture

Over the 30-day snapshot window, LAX–Honolulu fares have been remarkably stable for a leisure route. The median price of $122 sits close to the low end of $109, and the fact that 25th-to-75th percentile fares only span $110 to $130 tells you that on most days, shoppers are seeing roughly the same price. That's a meaningfully different pattern than routes where fares swing wildly day to day — here, the bulk of the market is compressed into a $20 band.

That said, the 58% spread between the $109 low and the $172 high shows that outlier spikes do happen, likely tied to high-demand departure dates, holiday periods, or last-minute availability crunches rather than booking-window timing itself. Because we're only looking at cached fare snapshots over 30 days — not actual purchase-to-departure timelines — we can't say with confidence whether booking further in advance meaningfully improves your odds here. What the data does support is that if you see a fare at or below the $110-$122 range, you're already in the bottom quartile of what's been observed, and waiting for something dramatically cheaper may not pay off given how narrow the typical range is.

We don't have reliable carrier-level detail in this dataset, so we can't point to a specific airline or day-of-week pattern — if you're flexible, it's worth comparing a couple of carriers directly rather than relying on a single search. The honest takeaway: this route doesn't show the kind of dramatic volatility that rewards aggressive timing strategies. Treat anything near $122 as a fair price, and treat the $172 high end as the exception rather than the rule.

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