Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) to Los Angeles (LAX): 8,159 miles (13,131 km) great-circle, about 16h 50m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $842 round-trip on airline JX, with 1 stop, departing May 29, 2026.
$842 round-trip, airline JX JX712, departing 2026-05-29 at 11:30, returning 2026-06-24. The recorded itinerary left on a Friday, returning on a Wednesday 26 nights later; the fare was observed 34 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $842, it ranked 26th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from SGN (median $257). That is 10.3 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), below the SGN median of 21.2 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from SGN of similar length: Minsk (5,153 mi) at $892 and Istanbul (5,102 mi) at $593.
SGN to LAX is the only one of 30 SGN routes where airline JX priced cheapest. It is the longest of the 30 routes we track from SGN.
Of 40 departure airports with a fare to Los Angeles, Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) ranked 36th at $842. Lowest: $77 from Seattle (SEA); highest: $1224 from Sapporo (CTS); 11 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Frontier (18), Spirit (5), Southwest (3), EVA Air (2), Fiji Airways (2) and WestJet (2), plus 8 more.
The reverse, Los Angeles (LAX) to Ho Chi Minh City (SGN), was $1326 round-trip on Cathay Pacific, 1 stop, departing June 28, 2026. Los Angeles to Ho Chi Minh City flights.
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Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, America/Los_Angeles; flight time is our estimate.