Route brief · DUB → PEK
Dublin → Beijing
$656
−10% vs typical
seasonal median $730 · difference $74
Nov 21 – Nov 28 · 7 nights
Hainan AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $681–$997
- Board rank
- Stronger than 20%
- 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, Nov is the cheapest for DUB → PEK. Best time to be there: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Fares bottom out in November around $656 and peak in March near $1,007 — a $351 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Hainan Airlines nonstop and takes about 10 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip. At $656 for 8,274 km each way, that works out to about $40 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 23 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this fare ranks 11th — 25% above the $525 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 33 routes of similar length we watch out of Dublin, where the middle fare is $836.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $819 then versus $788 now, across 8 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 $663, on Sep 10.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 93 days priced, from 18 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $656
10% below the $730 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dublin → Beijing · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Dublin (DUB) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ~10 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,274 km each way
- Typical price
- $730 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Hainan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
DUB → PEK, answered.
Is $656 a good price for Dublin to Beijing?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $730 round-trip and this fare is 10% under it, about $74. 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 Dublin to Beijing?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 DUB → 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, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Dublin to Beijing?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Hainan Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 10 hours.
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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