Route brief · LAX → PEK
Los Angeles → Beijing
$590
−31% vs typical
seasonal median $850 · difference $260
Oct 27 – Nov 3 · 7 nights
Sichuan Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $624–$851
- Board rank
- Stronger than 80%
- Route sample
- 4 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 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for LA → PEK. Best time to be there: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Fares bottom out in October around $590 and peak in June near $1,176 — a $586 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 21 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Sichuan Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $590 for 10,037 km each way, that works out to about $29 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 26 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this fare ranks 4th — 10% above the $534 from Sydney. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 46 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles, where the middle fare is $674.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $823 then versus $863 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 $423, on Aug 28.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 13 of 101 days priced, from 25 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $590
31% below the $850 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Los Angeles → Beijing · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ~21 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,037 km each way
- Typical price
- $850 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Sichuan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
LA → PEK, answered.
Is $590 a good price for Los Angeles to Beijing?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $850 round-trip. At $590 you're 31% below that, saving about $260, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Los Angeles to Beijing?
Across 4 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 LA → 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 4 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 Los Angeles to Beijing?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Sichuan 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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