The skyline of Ho Chi Minh City just before sunrise. The Bitexco Financial Tower is silhouetted.

Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City

Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City. From €269.18, fastest 8h 13m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City runs about 48 times a day, with the first departure around 06:01 and the last around 20:38. One passenger pays between €269.18 and €302.81, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 8h 13m over 3,709 km, on services run by 6 operators across 1 mode.

Checked September 19, 2026Priced for October 6, 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 6 operators and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares · Priced for October 6, 2026

€269.18 to €302.81

  • 234%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Seoul

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:01First departure
  • 20:38Last departure
  • 48Services per day
  • 100%Run direct

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €723.48Sun20
  2. about €550.61Mon21
  3. about €522.29Tue22
  4. about €456.80Wed23
  5. about €575.98Thu24
  6. about €534.09Fri25
  7. about €545.89Sat26
  8. about €404.29Sun27
  9. about €349.42Mon28
  10. about €341.16Tue29
  11. about €367.12Wed30
  12. about €430.84Thu1
  13. about €393.08Fri2
  14. about €411.96Sat3
  15. about €312.84Sun4
  16. about €273.31Mon5
  17. about €269.18Tue6
  18. about €288.06Wed7
  19. about €358.86Thu8
  20. about €329.95Fri9
  21. about €337.62Sat10

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

The flight gets you into Ho Chi Minh City. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Ho Chi Minh City for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Gò Vấp railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €351.7890 days
  2. €239.0960 days
  3. €216.6745 days
  4. €236.1430 days
  5. €337.6221 days
  6. €411.9614 days
  7. €545.897 days
  8. €522.293 days
  9. €723.481 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €216.67.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 234 percent. The most expensive point is €723.48, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€723.48€216.67137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 45 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

2 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.

The shape of it

3,709 km

3,601 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services take. The bearing runs south-west.

Who lives at each end

10,349,31214,002,598

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

0/2

2 of these connections were inferred from service-area overlap rather than observed in a timetable. We would rather say so.

The route

SeoulSeoulHo Chi Minh CityHo Chi Minh City
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

How far it really runs
The route covers 3,709 km against 3,601 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.

Ho Chi Minh City is large, and the road in from SGN can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Ho Chi Minh City

Settled in advance, so the ride into Ho Chi Minh City costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

Who runs this route

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Baggage storage near Gò Vấp railway station

Most of the points near Gò Vấp railway station open before the first train and close after the last one.

Partner links. We do not run these networks. We earn a commission on a booking, and the price is the same as going direct.

Questions about Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does it take to get from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City?

The fastest journey from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City takes 8h 13m door to door, of which 5h 4m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 8h 36m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City?

The cheapest fare from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City is €269.18, as of September 19, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €478.04. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City?

The cheapest way from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City is by flight, at €269.18 for one passenger on October 6, 2026. That journey takes 8h 14m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City?

Fares from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €216.67. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 234 percent, measured on September 19, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City?

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City, at €341.16. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 19, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City, at €227.29 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs service from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City?

No operator record names Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City directly. Air Premia, Asiana Airlines, Jeju Air, Korean Air, Tway Airlines, Vietnam Airlines publish service areas covering both ends and may serve it, so we list them as possible operators rather than confirmed ones.

Is there a direct service from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City?

Every service we sell from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City is direct, with around 48 departures a day and a fastest journey of 8h 13m door to door. No connection is needed, so there is no missed connection risk to plan around on this corridor.

Which station or terminal do services from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City use?

Services from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City by flight leave from Seoul ICN and arrive at Ho Chi Minh City SGN. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City?

0 of the 6 operators we sell from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City on September 19, 2026: 3709 km of route against 3601 km in a straight line, 48 services a day, 6 operators a cheapest fare of €269.18, and 8h 13m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Being on the water gives Ho Chi Minh City a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Ho Chi Minh City and across Vietnam

Day trips that leave Ho Chi Minh City in the morning and cover a good part of Vietnam by evening.

Partner links. We do not sell tours or tickets. We earn a commission on a booking, and it never changes the price.

The two ends, compared

Seoul reaches 195 places in 55 countries on services we hold, over distances from 42 to 12,052 km. Ho Chi Minh City reaches 76 places in 28 countries, from 51 to 10,194 km.

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Leaving Seoul

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  • 55Countries
  • 83Operators

Arriving in Ho Chi Minh City

Leaving Ho Chi Minh City

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  • 28Countries
  • 60Operators

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