Route brief · LON → CAN
London → Guangzhou
$616
−16% vs typical
seasonal median $730 · difference $114
Nov 6 – Nov 10 · 4 nights
Tianjin Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $674–$741
- Board rank
- Stronger than 42%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
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.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Nov is the cheapest for LON → CAN. Best time to be there: Oct–Dec.
Fares bottom out in November around $616 and peak in December near $1,265 — a $649 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under Tianjin Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $616 for 9,496 km each way, that works out to about $32 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 Guangzhou, this fare ranks 9th — 18% above the $520 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 36 routes of similar length we watch out of London, where the middle fare is $670.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $722 then versus $727 now, across 8 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 $591, on Nov 7.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 16 of 93 days priced, from 49 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Nov · around $616
16% below the $730 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · London → Guangzhou · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Heathrow (LHR) · Gatwick (LGW) · Stansted (STN) · Luton (LTN) ↔ Baiyun (CAN)
- Flight time
- ~13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,496 km each way
- Typical price
- $730 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Tianjin Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Dec
LON → CAN, answered.
Is $616 a good price for London to Guangzhou?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $730 round-trip and this fare is 16% under it, about $114. 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 Guangzhou?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Guangzhou are Oct–Dec — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book LON → 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. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 5 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 Guangzhou?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Tianjin 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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