Route brief · CAN → KIX
Guangzhou → Osaka
$335
−9% vs typical
seasonal median $370 · difference $35
Mar 4 '27 – Mar 11 '27 · 7 nights
China SouthernNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $345–$394
- Board rank
- Stronger than 17%
- Route sample
- 8 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefKIXOsakaJapan with the volume up — street food, blunt humour, and Kyoto and Nara both under an hour by train.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsKansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)All routes into OsakaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 8 months, Mar is the cheapest for CAN → KIX. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in March around $335 and peak in January near $484 — a $149 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies China Southern nonstop and takes about 3.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip. At $335 for 2,475 km each way, that works out to about $68 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Osaka, this fare ranks 3rd — 1.7× the $203 we hold from Hong Kong. For context, the middle fare among the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Guangzhou is $214.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 2 · $345 (17% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 10% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $377 then versus $415 now, across 7 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 $316, on Sep 2.
Cheapest in Mar · around $335
9% below the $370 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Guangzhou → Osaka · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Baiyun (CAN) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ~3.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,475 km each way
- Typical price
- $370 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Southern
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
CAN → KIX, answered.
Is $335 a good price for Guangzhou to Osaka?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $370 round-trip and this fare is 9% under it, about $35. 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 Osaka?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Mar comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Osaka are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book CAN → Osaka?
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, Mar 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 Osaka?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (China Southern). The outbound leg runs around 3.5 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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