Route brief · CAN → SGN
Guangzhou → Ho Chi Minh City
$132
−25% vs typical
seasonal median $175 · difference $43
Nov 24 – Dec 17 · 23 nights
Spring AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $158–$185
- Board rank
- Stronger than 69%
- Route sample
- 8 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSGNHo Chi Minh CityFaster and richer than Hanoi, and the usual door to the Mekong Delta and the southern coast.Best windowDec–MarAirportsTan Son Nhat (SGN)All routes into Ho Chi Minh CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 8 months, Nov is the cheapest for CAN → SGN. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares bottom out in November around $132 and peak in April near $278 — a $146 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Spring Airlines nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 23-night trip. At $132 for 1,539 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Of the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Ho Chi Minh City, this is the cheapest right now — 19% under the next one, Manila.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 9 · $160 (13% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $176 then versus $182 now, across 4 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 $157, on Nov 28.
October 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $132
25% below the $175 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Guangzhou → Ho Chi Minh City · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Baiyun (CAN) ↔ Tan Son Nhat (SGN)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,539 km each way
- Typical price
- $175 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Spring Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
CAN → SGN, answered.
Is $132 a good price for Guangzhou to Ho Chi Minh City?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $175 round-trip. At $132 you're 25% below that, saving about $43, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Guangzhou to Ho Chi Minh City?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Ho Chi Minh City are Dec–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book CAN → Ho Chi Minh City?
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, 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 Guangzhou to Ho Chi Minh City?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Spring 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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