Route brief · CAN → AKL
Guangzhou → Auckland
$800
−21% vs typical
seasonal median $1,010 · difference $210
Mar 13 '27 – Mar 16 '27 · 3 nights
Cathay Pacific1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $863–$1,014
- Board rank
- Stronger than 58%
- Route sample
- 8 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefAKLAucklandA city built on fifty volcanoes between two harbours — and the start of every New Zealand road trip.Best windowNov–AprAirportsAuckland (AKL)All routes into AucklandWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 8 months, Mar is the cheapest for CAN → AKL. Best time to be there: Nov–Apr.
Fares bottom out in March around $800 and peak in February near $1,231 — a $431 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under Cathay Pacific, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $800 for 9,269 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Auckland, this fare ranks 7th — 39% above the $576 from Los Angeles. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 31 routes of similar length we watch out of Guangzhou, where the middle fare is $868.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 8% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $948 then versus $1,026 now, across 6 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 $736, on Oct 22.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 19 of 122 days priced, from 71 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
Cheapest in Mar · around $800
21% below the $1,010 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Guangzhou → Auckland · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Baiyun (CAN) ↔ Auckland (AKL)
- Flight time
- ~12 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,269 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,010 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Cathay Pacific
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Apr
CAN → AKL, answered.
Is $800 a good price for Guangzhou to Auckland?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $1,010 round-trip. At $800 you're 21% below that, saving about $210, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Guangzhou to Auckland?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Mar comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Auckland are Nov–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book CAN → Auckland?
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, Mar comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Guangzhou to Auckland?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Cathay Pacific. 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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