How Much Is a Flight to Bali (2026 Data)

A round-trip flight from the United States to Bali costs $1,254¹ on average, based on prices over the past 12 months. How much is a flight to Indonesia? For Bali, the answer is that average, and the month you fly moves it most: the typical round trip is $1,065¹ in March and $1,758¹ in December.

Below are fares by month, weekday, booking week and US airport, the usual connections, the taxes and local charges, and the official record of air traffic into the island. In 2025, 6,907,585² foreign visitors arrived in Bali by air.

How much a flight to Bali costs in 2026

The lowest city averages are on the West Coast.¹ Round trips from San Francisco average $988¹, from Seattle $995¹ and from Los Angeles $1,062¹. Phoenix, the highest of the six cities listed, is at $1,206¹, still below the national average.

The national figure covers round trips to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar from every US departure airport together. It is an average of prices seen, not a quoted fare. Last-minute tickets, booked within two weeks of departure, run about 14%¹ above it. A round trip under $1,012¹ counts as a good deal: a quarter of the fares found were at or below that price.

A good deal looks different from each city. From San Francisco, a quarter of round trips found cost $789¹ or less; from Phoenix the same threshold is $993¹.

Single deals can fall below even these thresholds. Seattle was the cheapest route found in the past five days, at $600¹ for a round trip. On Los Angeles, the most popular route, recent deals seen in the last 72 hours started at $771¹, and fares booked from Chicago in the past five days started at $781¹. These are single deals, not averages.

They show what is possible on a good day, not what most travelers pay.

Which airline is cheapest depends on the airport.^{3 4} The airline figures are a separate measure from the route deals above. In the past five days the lowest round trip from Seattle was on Singapore Airlines, at $595³, while from Los Angeles China Eastern and Singapore Airlines were within a few dollars of each other, at $771⁴ and $775⁴. From Dallas-Fort Worth the cheapest was Korean Air at $965⁵. Like the route deals, these are the lowest fares seen in a short window, not averages.⁵ From New York JFK the three cheapest airlines were close together, from $897⁶ on Philippine Airlines to $915⁶ on Delta; from Chicago O'Hare, Cathay Pacific was lowest at $781⁷.

Flying to Bali from each state

The price of a flight to Bali from the US depends on the airport you leave from. The map shows the average round trip from one main airport in each of 38⁸ states. Seattle is the cheapest at $995³, followed by Los Angeles at $1,062⁴ and Las Vegas at $1,181⁹. Hartford, Connecticut, is the most expensive at $1,667¹⁰, $672⁸ more than Seattle for the same destination.

In 13⁸ of the 38 states the average stays under $1,300. In 30⁸ states the main airport's average is above the $1,254¹ national figure, which covers all US airports together.

Each airport page also gives the usual range of round-trip fares around its average. The range is narrowest from Milwaukee, $1,239⁴¹ to $1,392⁴¹, and widest from Charleston, South Carolina, $1,311³⁷ to $2,265³⁷. Seattle has both the lowest average and the lowest bottom of the range, $815³.

How much is a flight from New York to Bali? From JFK the round trip averages $1,231⁶, with fares typically between $1,069⁶ and $1,520⁶. Newark, across the Hudson, is lower at $1,186³⁰.

For anyone wondering how much is a flight to Bali from Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth averages $1,293⁵, a little more than Chicago O'Hare ($1,240⁷).

And how much is a flight to Bali from Florida? From Orlando, the Florida airport on the map, it averages $1,447¹⁵, above the national average.

The cheapest month is not the same everywhere.^{3 5} From Seattle it is February, when the typical round trip is $772³; from Chicago O'Hare and Los Angeles it is March;^{7 4} from Dallas-Fort Worth, November, at $975⁵. The table lists the 23⁸ main airports whose route page names a cheapest month.

No single month wins everywhere. January, March and April are each the cheapest month from 4⁸ of the 23⁸ airports, and August from 3⁸. None of the airports has its cheapest month in June, July or December, the three months that are dearest for the US as a whole.¹

The cheapest time to fly to Bali

Bali's flight prices by month, cheapest to priciest, run from March, when the typical round trip is $1,065¹, to December at $1,758¹. February and September come next, at $1,132¹ each. The expensive stretch is June to August, with July at $1,562¹, and then December alone, which costs $693⁸ more than March for the same trip, 1.65⁸ times as much. The monthly figures are medians of all prices seen for each month, with the top 0.1% removed.

December is the dearest month from each of the four airports in the chart below, but the gap varies. From Dallas-Fort Worth a December round trip is $2,038⁵, against $975⁵ in November; from Los Angeles December is $1,651⁴ and March $912⁴. Seattle stays the cheapest of the four in most months, and its June fare, $1,474³, is higher than its July fare.

The day of departure matters less. Tuesday is the cheapest day to fly, at $1,278¹ on average, and Saturday the most expensive at $1,415¹, a gap of $137⁸. Time of day moves the price by a similar amount: night departures average $1,274¹ and evening departures $1,409¹. Friday ($1,383¹) and Saturday are the two dearest days; Monday to Thursday stay between $1,278¹ and $1,327¹.

Night departures are the cheapest of the four times of day,¹ and morning and afternoon flights cost about the same: $1,310¹ and $1,325¹. The gap between night and evening, $135⁸, is close to the weekday gap.

Booking early pays more than picking the day. Fares are lowest about 24 weeks¹ before departure, at an average of $1,041¹, about 28%¹ below a last-minute fare booked within two weeks of the flight. In the final week the average is $1,517¹, $476⁸ more than at the cheapest point. The curve is not smooth, though: some weeks between 13 and 20 weeks out were dearer than the weeks around them.

A second, shallower low comes about 10 weeks before departure, at $1,150¹. From 8 weeks out the average climbs with only small pauses, from $1,290¹ to $1,378¹ two weeks before the flight.

How you get to Bali: connections and flight time

Los Angeles is the most popular route from the US to Bali,¹ and there are no direct flights from it, so the trip means at least one change of planes.⁴ Where you change depends on where you start. From Los Angeles, 48%⁴ of travelers on one-stop round trips connected in Singapore; from Seattle, 41%³ also went through Singapore and 38%³ through Taipei; from Newark, 84%³⁰ through Istanbul; and from Honolulu, 49%¹⁷ through Manila.

Hong Kong (15%⁴) and Manila (7%⁴) are the other common stops from Los Angeles, so nearly all one-stop trips from there change planes in East or Southeast Asia. From the East Coast the pattern shifts to the Gulf: from New York JFK, Doha takes 31%⁶ of one-stop trips.

On the fastest one-stop routings, the average total travel time is about 20 to 26 hours.^{3 6} Seattle via Taipei averages 20h 18m³, Honolulu via Manila 22h 28m¹⁷, and New York JFK via Dubai 25h 36m⁶. The straight-line (great-circle) distance to Denpasar is 8,156 miles³ from Seattle and 10,159 miles⁶ from JFK; the miles flown via a hub are more.

Seattle, Los Angeles and Honolulu have the three shortest of these routings.^{3 4 17} Some East Coast airports route through the Gulf and take longer: Washington Dulles via Dubai averages 24h 38m⁴⁰ and Boston via Doha 25h 24m²⁴. From Detroit and Dallas-Fort Worth, Seoul Incheon is both the most common connection and the fastest one, at 22h 42m²⁵ and 24h 36m⁵.

Taxes and fees on a Bali trip

US government fees in the ticket

Part of every fare is fixed by the US government. A round trip starting in the US pays the international departure and arrival taxes of $23.40⁴² each, the September 11 Security Fee of $5.60⁴³ once, on the leg that starts in the US, and three fees on the way home: customs ($7.61⁴⁴), immigration ($7.00⁴⁵) and agricultural inspection ($3.98⁴⁶). The customs and agricultural fees rose on October 1, 2026, from $7.39⁴⁷ and $3.84⁴⁶; the new agricultural fee applies to tickets bought from that date. The Passenger Facility Charge is $4.50⁴⁸ per boarding at a US airport; a trip that changes planes abroad boards once in the US, while the legal cap of two boardings in each direction would be $18.00⁸.

With one connection each way, outside the US, the US items add up to $75.49⁸, $0.36⁸ more than before October 1 and about 6.0%⁸ of the $1,254¹ average fare. They are already included in the fares above, not added on top.

Bali's airport charge, tourist levy and visa fee

On the Indonesian side, Ngurah Rai charges international passengers a departure service charge of 240,000 rupiah⁴⁹, about $13.24⁸ at 18,130 rupiah⁵⁰ per dollar; it is built into the ticket price. Two other charges are paid separately from the airfare. Bali's tourist levy is 150,000 rupiah⁵¹, about $8.27⁸ per foreign visitor, paid once per trip online or at a counter in the arrivals hall. US citizens can get a visa on arrival or its electronic version, the e-VOA; the fee is 500,000 rupiah⁵², about $27.58⁸.

An increase to 750,000 rupiah⁵² for the electronic version was proposed on August 12, 2026, but had no start date on November 6, 2026.

How many people fly to Bali

Almost every foreign visitor reaches Bali by plane. The island's arrival statistics split air and sea gates from 2021, and since 2022 air has carried between 99.4%⁸ and 99.9%⁸ of foreign arrivals each year. In 2025, 6,907,585² of the 6,948,754² foreign arrivals came by air and 41,169² by sea. The only year with a lower air share was 2021, when borders were almost closed and just 51² foreign visitors arrived, 43² of them by air.

Air arrivals follow a clear yearly cycle. In 2025 they peaked in July at 697,068² and were lowest in February at 444,411², so the busiest month had 1.57⁸ times as many arrivals by air as the quietest. July was also the busiest month in 2023 and 2024. Busy months for arrivals and expensive months for fares from the US are measured over different periods, so the chart below is a count of travelers, not a price signal.

The yearly cycle was already there before the pandemic. In 2019, counting all ports of entry, August was the busiest month with 616,706² foreign arrivals and February the quietest with 437,537². In 2025 the busiest month, July, had 697,107² arrivals, 13.0%⁸ more than the 2019 peak, and 11⁸ of the twelve months of 2025 were above the same month of 2019. Arrivals by sea are a small part of the total but grew from 24,819² in 2024 to 41,169² in 2025, up 65.9%⁸.

The long record goes back to 1971, when 34,313² foreign visitors arrived. Arrivals passed one million in 1994 (1,032,476²) and five million in 2017 (5,697,739²), fell to 1,069,473² in 2020, and recovered to 6,948,754² in 2025, the highest total in the 55-year series and 10.7%⁸ above 2019. The table covers all ports of entry; for the years before 2021 the split between air and sea was not published.

Arrivals in 2026 so far

The 2025 record has not carried into 2026, though the gap is closing. From January to September 2026, 5,237,128⁸ foreign visitors arrived in Bali, 1.1%⁸ fewer than the 5,297,869⁵³ of the same months of 2025.^{54 55} Four of the nine months were below 2025: January, April, May and June. February was up 9.2%⁸, March was almost unchanged, and July, August and September were each above the same month of 2025, September by 2.4%⁸. July 2026 was the busiest month so far, with 697,809⁵³ arrivals, followed by August with 685,994⁵⁴.

In August, 685,956⁵⁴ of them came by air and 38⁵⁴ by sea. The monthly 2026 figures cover all ports of entry, and the province's 2026 release has no passenger counts for Ngurah Rai.

Americans flying to Bali

American arrivals in Bali rose to 274,611⁵⁶ in 2025, 4.9%⁸ more than the 261,863⁵⁶ of 2024 and 10.3%⁸ more than in 2023. That is 3.95%⁸ of all foreign arrivals, and the United States was the seventh-largest source of visitors in 2025.² In 2021, only 9⁵⁶ Americans were counted. The yearly counts cover all ports of entry, and the split by mode is not published by nationality. Bali had 41,169² foreign arrivals by sea in 2025, so even if every one of them had been American, at least 85%⁸ of American visitors flew.

In January-July 2026, 162,192⁵⁷ Americans arrived, 2.0%⁸ fewer than the 165,446⁵⁷ of the same months of 2025.

Month by month, American arrivals in 2025 peaked in June at 29,738² and were lowest in February at 17,149²; the busiest month had 1.73⁸ times as many as the quietest. December, the most expensive month for fares, had 21,057² American arrivals. June, the busiest month for American arrivals, is also one of the dearer months to fly: the typical round trip from the US is $1,519¹, against $1,132¹ in February, the quietest month for American arrivals.

Ngurah Rai airport's traffic

Ngurah Rai counts every passenger who flies into Bali, domestic and international, visitors and residents. In 2025 it received 11,961,772⁵⁶ arriving passengers, its highest total since at least 2018 and 5.7%⁸ more than the 11,312,189⁵⁶ of 2019. Growth has slowed after the rebound: 0.7%⁸ in 2025, after 11.5%⁸ in 2024. In 2021, the airport received 1,882,404⁵⁶ passengers, 16.6%⁸ of the 2019 total.

Traffic had already dipped before the pandemic, by 2.8%⁸ in 2019; it then fell 74.2%⁸ in 2020 and 35.5%⁸ in 2021, before rising 237.0%⁸ in 2022 and 68.0%⁸ in 2023.

International flights now bring most of them. In 2025, 7,513,282⁵⁶ passengers arrived on international flights and 4,448,490⁵⁶ on domestic ones, an international share of 62.8%⁸. In 2021 the share was 0.1%⁸; it passed half in 2023 (53.5%⁸). Domestic arrivals have fallen since 2023, from 4,954,618⁵⁶ to 4,448,490⁵⁶, down 10.2%⁸.

Through 2025 the two kinds of traffic moved together. International arrivals peaked in July at 741,213⁵⁶ and were lowest in February at 491,922⁵⁶; domestic arrivals also peaked in July, at 440,729⁵⁶, and bottomed out in March at 265,037⁵⁶. The international share stayed between 59.6%⁸ and 65.9%⁸ in every month.

What these numbers mean for your trip

For a traveler from the US, the fare is the big number and the calendar is the main lever. Flying in March, February or September instead of December keeps a round trip near $1,065¹ to $1,132¹ rather than $1,758¹, and booking about 24 weeks¹ ahead has, on average, been cheaper than booking in the last two weeks. The departure airport comes next: the averages on the map run from $995³ to $1,667¹⁰, so a traveler near two airports can compare both.

Fixed charges are small beside the fare. US taxes and fees of $75.49⁸ are already in the ticket, as is Ngurah Rai's departure charge of about $13.24⁸. On top of the ticket, plan for Bali's levy of about $8.27⁸ and the visa-on-arrival fee of about $27.58⁸ per person.

Demand is high and roughly level with 2025. Foreign arrivals by air reached 6,907,585² in 2025, and Ngurah Rai received more passengers than in any year since at least 2018. In January-September 2026, foreign arrivals at all ports were 1.1%⁸ below the same months of 2025, but July, August and September 2026 were each above the same month of 2025. July was the busiest month for foreign arrivals by air in 2025 and June for American arrivals, which is worth knowing when planning dates, even though the arrival counts do not by themselves explain the fares.

Conclusions

1. The average fare. A round trip from the US to Bali averages $1,254¹; the West Coast is the cheapest place to start.
2. The month sets the price. The typical fare runs from $1,065¹ in March to $1,758¹ in December.
3. Plan for a connection. There are no direct flights from Los Angeles, and the fastest one-stop routings take about 20 to 26 hours, through hubs such as Singapore, Seoul Incheon, Doha or Istanbul.^{4 3}
4. Fees are a small share. US taxes and fees add $75.49⁸ to a one-stop round trip, about 6%⁸ of the average fare.
5. Foreign arrivals set a record in 2025. They reached 6,948,754² in 2025, the highest in the series that starts in 1971, and more than 99% of them came by air. January-September 2026 ran 1.1%⁸ below the same months of 2025, with July to September above 2025.