Route brief · HOU → CAN
Houston → Guangzhou
$857
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 13 – Nov 22 · 9 nights
Frontier Airlines2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefCANGuangzhouCantonese cooking at its source, and China Southern’s hub — often the cheapest way into the country.Best windowOct–DecAirportsBaiyun (CAN)All routes into GuangzhouWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Guangzhou: Oct–Dec. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 24.5 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under Frontier Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $857 for 13,385 km each way, that works out to about $32 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Guangzhou, this fare ranks 7th — 1.6× the $530 we hold from San Francisco. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 33 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston, where the middle fare is $1,021. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 13% lower than when tracking began on Aug 16 — $989 then versus $857 now, across 3 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 $857, on Nov 13.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ Baiyun (CAN)
- Flight time
- ~24.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~13,385 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Frontier Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Dec
HOU → CAN, answered.
How far in advance should I book HOU → Guangzhou?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Houston to Guangzhou?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Frontier 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 August 24). 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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