Route brief · DXB → CAN
Dubai → Guangzhou
$525
−5% vs typical
seasonal median $555 · difference $30
Oct 27 – Nov 9 · 13 nights
Hainan Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $552–$681
- Board rank
- Stronger than 6%
- Route sample
- 7 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 7 months, Oct is the cheapest for DXB → CAN. Best time to be there: Oct–Dec.
Fares bottom out in October around $525 and peak in March near $726 — a $201 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 9 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Hainan Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $525 for 5,842 km each way, that works out to about $45 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. For context, the middle fare among the 39 routes of similar length we watch out of Dubai is $327.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 28 · $561 (12% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $664 then versus $629 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 $482, on Oct 25.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $525
5% below the $555 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dubai → Guangzhou · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- DXB · Al Maktoum (DWC) ↔ Baiyun (CAN)
- Flight time
- ~9 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,842 km each way
- Typical price
- $555 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Hainan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Dec
DXB → CAN, answered.
Is $525 a good price for Dubai to Guangzhou?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $555 round-trip and this fare is 5% under it, about $30. 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 Dubai to Guangzhou?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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 DXB → 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 7 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 Dubai to Guangzhou?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Hainan 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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