How Much Is a Flight to Bali (2026 Data)

A round-trip flight from the United States to Bali costs $1,245¹ 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 $1,081¹ in March and $1,784¹ 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 $969¹, from Seattle $993¹ and from Los Angeles $1,044¹. Phoenix, the highest of the six cities listed, is at $1,201¹, 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 11%¹ above it. A round trip under $993¹ 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 $770¹ or less; from Chicago the same threshold is $977¹.

Single deals can fall below even these thresholds. Seattle was the cheapest route found in the past five days, at $721¹ for a round trip. On Los Angeles, the most popular route, recent deals seen in the last 72 hours started at $841¹. These are single deals, not averages.

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

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 37³ states. Seattle is the cheapest at $993⁴, followed by Los Angeles at $1,044⁵ and Newark at $1,127⁶. Hartford, Connecticut, is the most expensive at $1,634⁷, $641³ more than Seattle for the same destination.

In 13³ of the 37 states the average stays under $1,300.

How much is a flight from New York to Bali? From JFK the round trip averages $1,234³⁰, with fares typically between $1,068³⁰ and $1,534³⁰. Newark, across the Hudson, is lower at $1,127⁶.

For anyone wondering how much is a flight to Bali from Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth averages $1,228³⁸, almost the same as Chicago O'Hare ($1,229¹⁶).

And how much is a flight to Bali from Florida? From Orlando, the Florida airport on the map, it averages $1,479¹², one of the higher fares shown.

The cheapest month is not the same everywhere.^{4 13} From Seattle it is January, when the typical round trip is $789⁴; from Chicago O'Hare and Los Angeles it is March;^{16 5} from Atlanta, October, at $1,152¹³. The table lists the 25³ main airports whose route page names a cheapest month.

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 $1,081¹, to December at $1,784¹. January ($1,085¹) and September ($1,096¹) are almost as cheap as March. The expensive stretch is June to August, with July at $1,563¹, and then December alone, which costs $703³ more than March for the same trip, 1.65³ times as much. The monthly figures are medians of all prices seen for each month, with the top 0.1% removed.

The day of departure matters less. Wednesday is the cheapest day to fly, at $1,260¹ on average, and Saturday the most expensive at $1,418¹, a gap of $158³. Time of day moves the price by a similar amount: night departures average $1,283¹ and evening departures $1,413¹.

Night departures are the cheapest of the four times of day,¹ and morning and afternoon flights cost about the same: $1,304¹ and $1,317¹. The gap between night and evening, $130³, 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 $1,052¹, about 24%¹ below a last-minute fare booked within two weeks of the flight. In the final week the average is $1,411¹, $359³ 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.

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.⁵ Where you change depends on where you start. From Los Angeles, 45%⁵ of travelers on one-stop round trips connected in Singapore; from Seattle, 41%⁴ went through Taipei; from Newark, 93%⁶ through Istanbul; and from Honolulu, 60%¹⁴ through Manila.

On the fastest one-stop routings, the average total travel time is about 20 to 26 hours.^{4 30} Seattle via Taipei averages 20h 20m⁴, Honolulu via Sydney 21h 56m¹⁴, and New York JFK via Dubai 25h 43m³⁰. The straight-line (great-circle) distance to Denpasar is 8,156 miles⁴ from Seattle and 10,159 miles³⁰ from JFK; the miles flown via a hub are more.

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 $23.40⁴¹ each, the September 11 Security Fee of $5.60⁴² once, on the leg that starts in the US, and three fees on the way home: customs ($7.39⁴³), immigration ($7.00⁴⁴) and agricultural inspection ($3.84⁴⁵). Two of them change on October 1, 2026: the customs fee rises to $7.61⁴⁶, and the agricultural inspection fee rises to $3.98⁴⁵ for tickets bought from that date. The Passenger Facility Charge is $4.50⁴⁷ 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 $18.00³.

With one connection each way, outside the US, the US items add up to $75.13³ today and $75.49³ from October 1, about 6.0%³ of the $1,245¹ 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 rupiah⁴⁸, about $13.40³ at 17,917 rupiah⁴⁹ 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 rupiah⁵⁰, about $8.37³ 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 rupiah⁵¹, about $27.91³.

An increase to 750,000 rupiah⁵¹ for the electronic version was proposed on August 12, 2026, but had no start date on September 27, 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%³ and 99.9%³ 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 1.57³ 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 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%³ 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. From January to July 2026, 3,900,965⁵² foreign visitors arrived in Bali, 2.0%³ fewer than the 3,979,854⁵² of the same months of 2025. Four of the seven months were below 2025: January, April, May and June. February was up 9.2%³, and March and July were almost unchanged.

July 2026 was still the busiest month so far, with 697,809⁵² arrivals. The 2026 figures cover all ports of entry; the split between air and sea is not yet published for 2026, and the province's 2026 release has no passenger counts for Ngurah Rai.

Americans flying to Bali

American arrivals in Bali rose to 274,611⁵³ in 2025, 4.9%³ more than the 261,863⁵³ of 2024 and 10.3%³ more than in 2023. That is 3.95%³ of all foreign arrivals, and the United States was the seventh-largest source of visitors in 2025.² In 2021, only 9⁵³ 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%³ of American visitors flew.

In January-July 2026, 162,192⁵⁴ Americans arrived, 2.0%³ fewer than the 165,446⁵⁴ 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 1.73³ times as many as the quietest. December, the most expensive month for fares, had 21,057² 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 11,961,772⁵³ arriving passengers, its highest total since at least 2018 and 5.7%³ more than the 11,312,189⁵³ of 2019. Growth has slowed after the rebound: 0.7%³ in 2025, after 11.5%³ in 2024. In 2021, the airport received 1,882,404⁵³ passengers, 16.6%³ of the 2019 total.

International flights now bring most of them. In 2025, 7,513,282⁵³ passengers arrived on international flights and 4,448,490⁵³ on domestic ones, an international share of 62.8%³. In 2021 the share was 0.1%³; it passed half in 2023 (53.5%³). Domestic arrivals have fallen since 2023, from 4,954,618⁵³ to 4,448,490⁵³, down 10.2%³.

Through 2025 the two kinds of traffic moved together. International arrivals peaked in July at 741,213⁵³ and were lowest in February at 491,922⁵³; domestic arrivals also peaked in July, at 440,729⁵³, and bottomed out in March at 265,037⁵³. The international share stayed between 59.6%³ and 65.9%³ 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, January or September instead of December keeps a round trip near $1,081¹ to $1,096¹ rather than $1,784¹, 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 $993⁴ to $1,634⁷, so a traveler near two airports can compare both.

Fixed charges are small beside the fare. US taxes and fees of $75.13³ are already in the ticket, as is Ngurah Rai's departure charge of about $13.40³. On top of the ticket, plan for Bali's levy of about $8.37³ and the visa-on-arrival fee of about $27.91³ per person.

Demand is high, though it has stopped rising. 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-July 2026, foreign arrivals at all ports were 2.0%³ below the same months of 2025. July was the busiest month for foreign arrivals by air 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 $1,245¹; the West Coast is the cheapest place to start.
2. The month sets the price. The typical fare runs from $1,081¹ in March to $1,784¹ 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, Taipei, Doha or Istanbul.^{5 4}
4. Fees are a small share. US taxes and fees add $75.13³ to a one-stop round trip, $75.49³ from October 1, 2026.
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-July 2026 ran 2.0%³ below the same months of 2025.