Southampton to Edinburgh: buy now or wait?
Cheaper than 20% of what we have seen
Usually £69 Cheapest in September (~£72)
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Fare Desk notes
Today's one-way fare of €81 from Southampton to Edinburgh is clearly not a good one by our own records. It is cheaper than 25% of the fares we have logged, but the median fare on this route is €78 and the lowest fare we have seen is €57. Our data set contains 184 observations.
The typical fare when booking between 0 and 13 days before departure is €86, and the months that have shown the lowest median prices are September (€86, 58 observations), October (€88, 107 observations) and November (€89, 19 observations). To obtain a better price you would need to target the historical low of €57 or aim for the median level of €78 rather than the current €81.
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What the history says
Based on 252 prices we recorded on this exact route, compared against every month we have on record.
Best booking window
28–41 days — is when this route has been cheapest to book: €88 typical, on 15 observations. That is about €1 less than booking in the last two weeks.
Cheapest months to fly to Edinburgh
Booking tips from our fare data
- How far in advance should you book a flight?
- Book 1–1.5 months before departure. Tracking the same flights at every lead time (94,914 flights on 19,442 routes, 2026-06-14 to 2026-11-04), that window had the smallest average premium over each flight's lowest fare: +16.8%, against +49.3% in the last 3 days.
- What is the cheapest day of the week to fly?
- Wednesday. Comparing each fare with the median of its own route, Wednesday departures were +3.4% and Tuesday +4.2%, while Friday was the dearest at +10.6%. Weekend departures cost more than midweek ones.
- What is the cheapest month to fly?
- November 2026. Comparing each route's fares month by month (booked 8–60 days ahead), November 2026 departures were -1.1% against the route's own median, while January 2027 was the dearest at +17.5%. Covers September 2026, October 2026, November 2026, December 2026, January 2027; fares observed 2026-06-14 to 2026-11-04.
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