Route brief · AUH → CAN
Abu Dhabi → Guangzhou
$484
−9% vs typical
seasonal median $530 · difference $46
Sep 30 – Oct 15 · 15 nights
Gulf Air1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $524–$531
- Board rank
- Stronger than 17%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefCANGuangzhouCantonese cooking at its source, and China Southern’s hub — often the cheapest way into the country.Best windowOct–DecAirportsBaiyun (CAN)All routes into GuangzhouWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Sep is the cheapest for AUH → CAN. Best time to be there: Oct–Dec.
Fares bottom out in September around $484 and peak in December near $711 — a $227 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 9.5 hours outbound, on a 15-night trip — ticketed under Gulf Air, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $484 for 5,946 km each way, that works out to about $41 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. For context, the middle fare among the 36 routes of similar length we watch out of Abu Dhabi is $448.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $696 then versus $670 now, across 6 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $484, on Sep 30.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 24 of 122 days priced, from 43 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Sep · around $484
9% below the $530 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Abu Dhabi → Guangzhou · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Zayed International (AUH) ↔ Baiyun (CAN)
- Flight time
- ~9.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,946 km each way
- Typical price
- $530 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Gulf Air
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Dec
AUH → CAN, answered.
Is $484 a good price for Abu Dhabi to Guangzhou?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $530 round-trip and this fare is 9% under it, about $46. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Abu Dhabi to Guangzhou?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Guangzhou are Oct–Dec — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book AUH → Guangzhou?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 4 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Abu Dhabi to Guangzhou?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Gulf Air. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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