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Island hopping in Southeast Asia

€136 per person with a cabin bag buys 3 flights through 4 countries with 2 islands: from Medan on Sat 21 Nov. That trip's oldest price was seen 4 days ago and may be higher now. Below are the two cheapest leaving each month from anywhere in Southeast Asia, each stopping at two or more islands.

In November, typical highs at the islands run from 29°C in Con Dao to 33°C in Waingapu (Sumba). At its peak in November: Monsoon flood season, southern Thailand's Gulf coast (Koh Samui).

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Where do you start?

Type a city or a country, or pick “Anywhere in Southeast Asia” for the cheapest start. From Australia, Europe, North America, Japan, South Korea, India, the Gulf or Hong Kong, type your home airport (e.g. Brisbane or MAN): trips start with a flight from the nearest of 14 big airports there (Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and more), and the budget covers it.

Then fly on toFrom Vancouver, Los Angeles or San Francisco, or an airport near them: a few places in Southeast Asia, one long flight on to Europe, a few places there, and home. Three long-haul tickets, all in the budget.

Leavingbetween 15 Nov – 31 Jan

WhenAnytimeA windowFixed dates

Leave and come backto

Give or take

First flight betweenand

In the next

Prices go up to 12 Feb; later dates are added daily.

Trip3+ places, 2–4 nights each

Trip length

Trip length, first flight to lastto

EndsAnywhere

Where it endsBack homeAnywhereIn a city

Total for all flightsUp to €300

Budget for all flights Only a small under-seat bag (leaves out the cabin bag)Only trips low for their dates (under what their flights usually cost)Leave it empty for no cap. Back home counts the flight home. With a cabin bag, each flight counts its airline's usual price for one, or €60 where we don't know it (€65 on a long flight).

Travellers1 adult

TravellersEvery price, the budget included, is for all of you.

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Trip shape

Places to visitto3 or more. Your start and a finish city don't count.

Nights in each placetoAny: from 1 up to 14.

Also start from cities nearbyWhen you start from one city: trips can start from any city this close (straight line), and Back home can end at any of them.Last flight byEmpty: any day.Cities in each countryThe country with most of the trip can have more.Return to a country already on the tripCan a trip leave a country and come back to it later? Never keeps each country's cities in one go. Your start country counts too.

Which places

Places you must visit (up to 3)

Kind of placesCapitalsIslandsBeachesMountainsLakesOld townsSmall towns From our notes on each city. Start, return and must-visit cities don't count. Mixing them up compares the kinds you pick, or capitals, islands and beaches.

Mix them up: no two of the same kind in a row

Only these countries

Most of the trip in one countryat leastcities there

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You Up to, for one flight

Flight timesandLocal time at each airport. We don't know every flight's times: a flight whose time we don't know stays in, marked for you to check.

Passports you holdLeaves out countries that need a visa.

Visas I already holdSchengen visaUK visaUS visaA valid one opens the countries that take it.

No visa at all: leave out e-visas, ETAs and visas on arrival too Leave each city from the airport I landed at

Prices are for one traveller, flights with a cabin bag, the cheapest seen lately.

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Example trips to islands

Some of the cheapest we found. They don't change with the search above.

Prices seen, not held: each says how old it is
Each total says what a cabin bag adds
Each flight is its own ticket
Ranked by price alone

We check the onward non-stop fares from each stop, for each number of nights you allow, and string the cheapest we find into a trip through several countries.

November

From Medan, 21–28 Nov €136per person in flights, with a cabin bag

cabin bags included in these fares · prices seen up to 4 days ago, may be higher now

MedanPenang4nSingapore3nPhuket

From Medan, 28 Nov – 3 Dec €154per person in flights, with a cabin bag

cabin bags included in these fares · prices seen up to 8 days ago, may be higher now

MedanPenang2nBangkok3nPhu Quoc

Airport change in Bangkok

December

From Medan, 5–9 Dec €140per person in flights, with a cabin bag

cabin bags included in these fares · prices seen up to 7 days ago, may be higher now

MedanPenang2nPhuket2nSingapore

From Medan, 10–17 Dec €164per person in flights, with a cabin bag

cabin bags included in these fares · prices seen up to 8 days ago, may be higher now

MedanPenang4nBangkok3nPhu Quoc

Airport change in Bangkok

January

From Medan, 8–14 Jan €172per person in flights, with a cabin bag

cabin bags included in these fares · prices seen up to 8 days ago, may be higher now

MedanPenang2nSingapore4nPhuket

From Bangkok, 21–25 Jan €187per person in flights, with a cabin bag

cabin bags included in these fares · prices seen up to 8 days ago, may be higher now

BangkokPhu Quoc2nSingapore2nLangkawi

One city per country, 2–4 nights in each, non-stop flights only. The start doesn't count as a stop. Updated every night.

The islands you can fly to

28 islands in Southeast Asia, from our notes on each place. Typical daytime highs in November are long-term averages at a nearby weather station, not a forecast. A linked name has its own page of trips from there.

Each dot is one of the islands you can fly to. Its colour is the place's typical high that month, blue for cool to orange for hot.

Indonesia

Ambonhighs of 31°C
Bajawa (Flores)
Denpasar (Bali)highs of 32°C
Labuan Bajo (Flores)
Natuna Ranai
Praya (Lombok)
Tambolaka (Sumba)
Tanjung Pandan (Belitung)highs of 31°C
Ternate
Waingapu (Sumba)highs of 33°C

Malaysia

Labuanhighs of 31°C
Langkawihighs of 31°C
Penanghighs of 31°C

Philippines

4 more places, in 2 countries

Thailand

Koh Samuihighs of 30°C
Phukethighs of 32°C

Vietnam

Con Daohighs of 29°C
Phu Quochighs of 31°C

Island hopping from your own city

Each start city's cheapest trip above, per person in flights, and its own page of them.