Route brief · CHI → CAN
Chicago → Guangzhou
$646
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 19 – Oct 24 · 5 nights
United2 stops
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.
Best time to be in Guangzhou: Oct–Dec. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 23 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $646 for 12,474 km each way, that works out to about $26 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $40 that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Guangzhou, this fare ranks 6th — 22% above the $530 from San Francisco. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 32 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago, where the middle fare is $863. We have 3 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 12% lower than when tracking began on Aug 9 — $1,186 then versus $1,038 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 $646, on Oct 19.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Baiyun (CAN)
- Flight time
- ~23 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~12,474 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Dec
CHI → CAN, answered.
How far in advance should I book CHI → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Chicago to Guangzhou?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under United. 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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