Route brief · JKT → PEK
Jakarta → Beijing
$314
−18% vs typical
seasonal median $385 · difference $71
Oct 24 – Nov 1 · 8 nights
Shenzhen Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $326–$391
- Board rank
- Stronger than 49%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPEKBeijingImperial scale — the Forbidden City, the Wall an hour north, and a visa-free transit window worth checking.Best windowSep–Oct · Apr–MayAirportsCapital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)All routes into BeijingWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Oct is the cheapest for JKT → PEK. Best time to be there: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Fares bottom out in October around $314 and peak in September near $476 — a $162 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 8.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Shenzhen Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $314 for 5,243 km each way, that works out to about $30 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 5 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this fare ranks 3rd — 29% above the $243 from Kuala Lumpur. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Jakarta.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 24% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $428 then versus $326 now, across 4 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 $272, on Nov 8.
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 Oct · around $314
18% below the $385 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Jakarta → Beijing · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Soekarno–Hatta (CGK) · Halim (HLP) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ~8.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,243 km each way
- Typical price
- $385 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Shenzhen Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
JKT → PEK, answered.
Is $314 a good price for Jakarta to Beijing?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $385 round-trip and this fare is 18% under it, about $71. 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 Jakarta to Beijing?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Beijing are Sep–Oct · Apr–May — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book JKT → Beijing?
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, 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 Jakarta to Beijing?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Shenzhen 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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