Route brief · CAN → SEL
Guangzhou → Seoul
$210
−7% vs typical
seasonal median $225 · difference $15
Oct 6 – Oct 12 · 6 nights
Xiamen Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $214–$288
- Board rank
- Stronger than 11%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSELSeoulPalaces wedged between skyscrapers, barbecue smoke at midnight, cafés that outnumber people.Best windowApr–May · Sep–OctAirportsIncheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP)All routes into SeoulWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Oct is the cheapest for CAN → SEL. Best time to be there: Apr–May · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $210 and peak in January near $312 — a $102 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 4.5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Xiamen Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $210 for 2,071 km each way, that works out to about $51 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of Guangzhou, where the middle fare is $210.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 14 · $214 (13% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 6% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $253 then versus $239 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 $208, on Oct 7.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $210
7% below the $225 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Guangzhou → Seoul · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Baiyun (CAN) ↔ Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP)
- Flight time
- ~4.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,071 km each way
- Typical price
- $225 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Xiamen Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
CAN → SEL, answered.
Is $210 a good price for Guangzhou to Seoul?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $225 round-trip and this fare is 7% 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 Seoul?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Seoul are Apr–May · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book CAN → Seoul?
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 7 months of cached fares, Oct 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 Seoul?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Xiamen 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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