Route brief · CAN → BKK
Guangzhou → Bangkok
$156
−11% vs typical
seasonal median $175 · difference $19
Sep 15 – Sep 30 · 15 nights
Thai Lion AirNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $164–$180
- Board rank
- Stronger than 24%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefBKKBangkokThe backpacker cliché that still delivers: gold temples, boat noodles, $12 street-food feasts.Best windowNov–FebAirportsSuvarnabhumi (BKK) · Don Mueang (DMK)All routes into BangkokWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Sep is the cheapest for CAN → BKK. Best time to be there: Nov–Feb.
Fares bottom out in September around $156 and peak in August near $282 — a $126 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Thai Lion Air nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 15-night trip. At $156 for 1,701 km each way, that works out to about $46 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Of the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bangkok, this is the cheapest right now — though Singapore is within a few dollars.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Sep 15 · $156 (18% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $186 then versus $191 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 $142, on Sep 15.
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Cheapest in Sep · around $156
11% below the $175 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Guangzhou → Bangkok · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Baiyun (CAN) ↔ Suvarnabhumi (BKK) · Don Mueang (DMK)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,701 km each way
- Typical price
- $175 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Thai Lion Air
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Feb
CAN → BKK, answered.
Is $156 a good price for Guangzhou to Bangkok?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $175 round-trip and this fare is 11% under it, about $19. 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 Guangzhou to Bangkok?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Bangkok are Nov–Feb — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book CAN → Bangkok?
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 9 months of cached fares, Sep 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 Bangkok?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Thai Lion Air). The outbound leg runs around 3 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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