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 → MEL
Guangzhou to Melbourne
Best fare, round trip
$513
−7%
below its usual $550
you keep $37
Found
- Depart
- Wed 10 Mar
- Return
- Tue 16 Mar
- Stay
- 6 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 11.5h
- Airline
Scoot
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $527 and $636. The drop beats 12% of measured fares on the board, over 5 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
AustraliaMelbourneLaneway coffee, four seasons before lunch, and the Great Ocean Road starting an hour down the coast.Best windowMar–May · Sep–NovAirportsTullamarine (MEL) · Avalon (AVV)Every route into MelbourneFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in December around $483 and peak in January near $744, 54% dearer, across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 11.5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Scoot, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $513 for 7,543 km each way, that works out to about $34 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Melbourne, this fare ranks 5th — 28% above the $400 from Singapore. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 26 routes of similar length we watch out of Guangzhou, where the middle fare is $752. The best time to be in Melbourne: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 6% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $634 then versus $596 now, across 17 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 $440, on 20 Oct.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 16 of 109 days priced, from 87 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
1234567891011121314151617Wednesday 18 November: $636. Compare fares from this day.1920212223Tuesday 24 November: $852. Compare fares from this day.252627282930
December 2026
Tuesday 1 December: $691. Compare fares from this day.234Saturday 5 December: $585. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 6 December: $601. Compare fares from this day.Monday 7 December: $483. Compare fares from this day.89Thursday 10 December: $965. Compare fares from this day.11Saturday 12 December: $587. Compare fares from this day.13141516Thursday 17 December: $544. Compare fares from this day.Friday 18 December: $535. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 19 December: $608. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 20 December: $610. Compare fares from this day.Monday 21 December: $540. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 22 December: $590. Compare fares from this day.23242526272829Wednesday 30 December: $587. Compare fares from this day.31
January 2027
123456789101112131415161718192021222324Monday 25 January: $836. Compare fares from this day.262728293031
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Dec, around $483
12% below the $550 typical fare
$636Nov, above the usual price. Compare November fares.$483Dec, the cheapest month. Compare December fares.$744Jan ’27, above the usual price. Compare January fares.$551Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$513Mar, below the usual price. Compare March fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Guangzhou to Melbourne, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Baiyun (CAN) ↔ Tullamarine (MEL) · Avalon (AVV)
- Flight time
- ≈11.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈7,543 km each way
- Typical price
- $550 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Scoot
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
CAN → MEL, answered.
Is $513 a good price for Guangzhou to Melbourne?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $550 round-trip and this fare is 7% under it. 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 Melbourne?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Melbourne are Mar–May · Sep–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book CAN → Melbourne?
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 5 months of cached fares, Dec comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Guangzhou to Melbourne?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Scoot. 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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