Route brief · CAN → JKT
Guangzhou → Jakarta
$240
−6% vs typical
seasonal median $255 · difference $15
Sep 13 – Sep 18 · 5 nights
Vietnam Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $240–$254
- Board rank
- Stronger than 8%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefJKTJakartaSoutheast Asia’s largest city and the cheapest way into the rest of Indonesia — Bali is a domestic hop from here.Best windowMay–SepAirportsSoekarno–Hatta (CGK) · Halim (HLP)All routes into JakartaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Sep is the cheapest for CAN → JKT. Best time to be there: May–Sep.
Fares bottom out in September around $240 and peak in February near $316 — a $76 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 7 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under Vietnam Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $240 for 3,336 km each way, that works out to about $36 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Jakarta, this fare ranks 2nd — 2% above the $235 from Manila. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Guangzhou, where the middle fare is $240.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $259 then versus $260 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 $233, on Sep 21.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cheapest in Sep · around $240
6% below the $255 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Guangzhou → Jakarta · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Baiyun (CAN) ↔ Soekarno–Hatta (CGK) · Halim (HLP)
- Flight time
- ~7 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,336 km each way
- Typical price
- $255 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Vietnam Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
CAN → JKT, answered.
Is $240 a good price for Guangzhou to Jakarta?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $255 round-trip and this fare is 6% under it, about $15. 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 Jakarta?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Jakarta are May–Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book CAN → Jakarta?
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 4 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 Jakarta?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Vietnam Airlines. 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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