Los Angeles (LAX) to Ho Chi Minh City (SGN): 8,159 miles (13,131 km) great-circle, about 16h 50m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $1326 round-trip on Cathay Pacific, with 1 stop, departing June 28, 2026.
$1326 round-trip, Cathay Pacific CX8936, departing 2026-06-28 at 00:25, returning 2026-07-24. The recorded itinerary left on a Sunday, returning on a Friday 26 nights later; the fare was observed 64 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $1326, it ranked 27th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from LAX (median $302). That is 16.3 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), close to the LAX median of 15.3 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from LAX of similar length: Phnom Penh (8,208 mi) at $1254 and Bangkok (8,259 mi) at $1281.
Cathay Pacific had the cheapest fare on 2 of 30 LAX routes. It is the 3rd longest of the 30 routes we track from LAX.
Of 20 departure airports with a fare to Ho Chi Minh City, Los Angeles (LAX) ranked 17th at $1326. Lowest: $183 from Bangkok (BKK); highest: $1566 from Salt Lake City (SLC); 8 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): VietJet Air (3), Air India (2), American Airlines (2), Qatar (2), AirAsia (1) and Cathay Pacific (1), plus 9 more.
The reverse, Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) to Los Angeles (LAX), was $842 round-trip on airline JX, 1 stop, departing May 29, 2026. Ho Chi Minh City to Los Angeles flights.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones America/Los_Angeles, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh; flight time is our estimate.