Route brief · LON → PEK
London → Beijing
$569
−13% vs typical
seasonal median $655 · difference $86
Nov 20 – Nov 27 · 7 nights
Hainan Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $634–$896
- Board rank
- Stronger than 31%
- Route sample
- 7 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 7 months, Nov is the cheapest for LON → PEK. Best time to be there: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Fares bottom out in November around $569 and peak in May near $915 — a $346 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Hainan Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $569 for 8,134 km each way, that works out to about $35 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 23 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this fare ranks 5th — 8% above the $525 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 34 routes of similar length we watch out of London, where the middle fare is $668.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $759 then versus $734 now, across 6 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 $569, on Nov 20.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 15 of 122 days priced, from 63 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $569
13% below the $655 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · London → Beijing · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Heathrow (LHR) · Gatwick (LGW) · Stansted (STN) · Luton (LTN) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ~13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,134 km each way
- Typical price
- $655 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Hainan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
LON → PEK, answered.
Is $569 a good price for London to Beijing?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $655 round-trip and this fare is 13% under it, about $86. 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 London to Beijing?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 LON → 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 7 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from London to Beijing?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Hainan 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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