Route brief · DEL → PEK
Delhi → Beijing
$407
−24% vs typical
seasonal median $535 · difference $128
Oct 2 – Oct 9 · 7 nights
China Eastern1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $444–$562
- Board rank
- Stronger than 66%
- Route sample
- 5 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 5 months, Oct is the cheapest for DEL → PEK. Best time to be there: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Fares bottom out in October around $407 and peak in September near $564 — a $157 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 8.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $407 for 3,797 km each way, that works out to about $54 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 5 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this fare ranks 5th — 1.9× the $218 we hold from Bangkok. For context, the middle fare among the 17 routes of similar length we watch out of Delhi is $341.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $559 then versus $538 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 $456, on Aug 16.
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.
Cheapest in Oct · around $407
24% below the $535 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Delhi → Beijing · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Indira Gandhi (DEL) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ~8.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,797 km each way
- Typical price
- $535 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
DEL → PEK, answered.
Is $407 a good price for Delhi to Beijing?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $535 round-trip. At $407 you're 24% below that, saving about $128, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Delhi to Beijing?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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 DEL → 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 5 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Delhi to Beijing?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Eastern. 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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