ExceptionalNonstop · 1.5h
LAX to LASUnited States
Las Vegas
$38
usually $125
−70%
Most monthly lows $67–$247. Cheaper than every other month on record (6).
Flights · LAX → PEK
Los Angeles to Beijing
Best fare, round trip
$560
−37%
below its usual $890
you keep $330
GreatFound
- Depart
- Fri 30 Oct
- Return
- Fri 4 Dec
- Stay
- 35 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 20.5h
- Airline
Sichuan Airlines
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $573 and $898. The drop beats 86% of measured fares on the board, over 6 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
ChinaBeijingImperial 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)Every route into BeijingFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in October around $560 and peak in May near $1,253, 124% dearer, across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 20.5 hours outbound, on a 35-night trip — ticketed under Sichuan Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $560 for 10,037 km each way, that works out to about $28 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 per 1,000 km that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 25 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this fare ranks 3rd — 7% above the $521 from Madrid. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 49 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles, where the middle fare is $722. The best time to be in Beijing: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $823 then versus $867 now, across 18 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 $353, on 6 Nov.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 12 of 109 days priced, from 79 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
12345Friday 6 November: $867. Compare fares from this day.78910Wednesday 11 November: $885. Compare fares from this day.121314Sunday 15 November: $573. Compare fares from this day.161718192021222324252627282930
December 2026
12345678910111213141516171819Sunday 20 December: $1.7k. Compare fares from this day.212223Thursday 24 December: $1.3k. Compare fares from this day.2526272829Wednesday 30 December: $888. Compare fares from this day.31
January 2027
Friday 1 January: $849. Compare fares from this day.2Sunday 3 January: $864. Compare fares from this day.45678910111213141516Sunday 17 January: $890. Compare fares from this day.1819202122232425262728293031
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Oct, around $560
37% below the $890 typical fare
$560Oct, the cheapest month. Compare October fares.$573Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$888Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$849Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$898Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$1253May, above the usual price. Compare May fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Los Angeles to Beijing, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ≈20.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈10,037 km each way
- Typical price
- $890 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Sichuan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
Good to know
LA → PEK, answered.
Is $560 a good price for Los Angeles to Beijing?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $890 round-trip. At $560 you're 37% below that, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Los Angeles to Beijing?
Across 6 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 6 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers 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. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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