Route brief · BKK → PEK
Bangkok → Beijing
$218
−26% vs typical
seasonal median $295 · difference $77
Sep 10 – Sep 15 · 5 nights
Shenzhen Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $260–$341
- Board rank
- Stronger than 71%
- Route sample
- 8 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPEKBeijingImperial scale — the Forbidden City, the Wall an hour north, and a visa-free transit window worth checking.Best windowSep–Oct · Apr–MayAirportsCapital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)All routes into BeijingWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 8 months, Sep is the cheapest for BKK → PEK. Best time to be there: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Fares bottom out in September around $218 and peak in July near $369 — a $151 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 6 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under Shenzhen Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $218 for 3,321 km each way, that works out to about $33 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Of the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this is the cheapest right now — though Manila is within a few dollars. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of Bangkok.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 4 · $200 (27% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $274 then versus $264 now, across 5 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 $192, on Aug 29.
September 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $218
26% below the $295 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Bangkok → Beijing · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Suvarnabhumi (BKK) · Don Mueang (DMK) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ~6 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,321 km each way
- Typical price
- $295 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Shenzhen Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
BKK → PEK, answered.
Is $218 a good price for Bangkok to Beijing?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $295 round-trip. At $218 you're 26% below that, saving about $77, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Bangkok to Beijing?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Beijing are Sep–Oct · Apr–May — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book BKK → Beijing?
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 8 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 Bangkok to Beijing?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Shenzhen Airlines. 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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