Route brief · CAN → PEK
Guangzhou → Beijing
$214
−67% vs typical
seasonal median $640 · difference $426
Sep 5 – Sep 9 · 4 nights
Hainan AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $516–$732
- Board rank
- Stronger than 99%
- Route sample
- 9 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 9 months, Sep is the cheapest for CAN → PEK. Best time to be there: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Fares bottom out in September around $214 and peak in August near $1,130 — a $916 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Hainan Airlines nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip. At $214 for 1,910 km each way, that works out to about $56 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Of the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this is the cheapest right now — though Hong Kong is within a few dollars.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 1 · $223 (28% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 8% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $330 then versus $303 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 $208, on Sep 1.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $214
67% below the $640 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Guangzhou → Beijing · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Baiyun (CAN) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,910 km each way
- Typical price
- $640 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Hainan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
CAN → PEK, answered.
Is $214 a good price for Guangzhou to Beijing?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $640 round-trip. At $214 you're 67% below that, saving about $426, which we rate exceptional for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Guangzhou to Beijing?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Sep 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 CAN → 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 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 Beijing?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Hainan Airlines). 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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