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Here’s how to get the lowest possible price on your holiday flights, according to five years of aggregated Google Flights data. 👇

An airplane window looking out over a bed of clouds and sky serves as the background for text about booking international flights.
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Here’s how to get the lowest possible price on your holiday flights, according to five years of aggregated Google Flights data. 👇

✈️ Connecting flights can also be a big money saver. Nonstop tickets are 20% more expensive on average.

✈️ When you travel is key for saving: Departing on a Monday and returning on a Tuesday or Wednesday saves about 14% over weekend flights (and up to 20% domestically versus Sunday).

✈️ Wednesday beat Tuesday as the absolute cheapest day to book a flight, but the difference is negligible — buying a ticket on a Wednesday only saves you about 1.4% compared to Sunday, the most expensive day.

An airplane window looking out over a bed of clouds and sky serves as the background for text about booking international flights.
An airplane window view of the sky at sunset overlaid with text providing travel tips for Thanksgiving, noting that the lowest prices typically occur 34 days before departure and in October.
An airplane window view looking out at a blue sky, clouds, landscape, and airplane wing. Overlaid text about Christmas travel tips states that the lowest flight prices hit 56 days before departure (with a low price range of 33–67 days). It notes that this is five days earlier than 2025, with the best deals falling between late October and mid-November.
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