GreatNonstop · 3h
CAN to PEKChina
Beijing
$280
usually $435
−36%
Most monthly lows $342–$579. Cheaper than every other month on record (6).
Flights · CAN → CPT
Guangzhou to Cape Town
Best fare, round trip
$1,277
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Wed 4 Nov
- Return
- Thu 12 Nov
- Stay
- 8 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 18.5h
- Airline
Cathay Pacific
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
South AfricaCape TownTable Mountain, two oceans and winelands 40 minutes out — the long-haul that overdelivers.Best windowNov–MarAirportsCape Town (CPT)Every route into Cape TownFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 18.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Cathay Pacific, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,277 for 11,840 km each way, that works out to about $54 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 34 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cape Town, this fare ranks 27th — 2.5× the $516 we hold from Toronto. For context, the middle fare among the 22 routes of similar length we watch out of Guangzhou is $917. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Cape Town: Nov–Mar.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,250 then versus $1,185 now, across 15 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 $1,018, on 13 Nov.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 111 days priced, from 45 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
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November 2026
123Wednesday 4 November: $1.3k. Compare fares from this day.567891011Thursday 12 November: $1.2k. Compare fares from this day.1314Sunday 15 November: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.Monday 16 November: $1.2k. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 17 November: $1.2k. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 18 November: $1.2k. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 19 November: $1.2k. Compare fares from this day.Friday 20 November: $1.3k. Compare fares from this day.21222324252627282930
December 2026
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January 2027
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Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Baiyun (CAN) ↔ Cape Town (CPT)
- Flight time
- ≈18.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈11,840 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Cathay Pacific
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
Good to know
CAN → CPT, answered.
How far in advance should I book CAN → Cape Town?
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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Guangzhou to Cape Town?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Cathay Pacific. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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