Route brief · LAX → CAN
Los Angeles → Guangzhou
$558
−46% vs typical
seasonal median $1,040 · difference $482
Oct 2 – Oct 11 · 9 nights
Sichuan Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $564–$1,042
- Board rank
- Stronger than 94%
- Route sample
- 4 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 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for LA → CAN. Best time to be there: Oct–Dec.
Fares bottom out in October around $558 and peak in December near $1,103 — a $545 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 18 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under Sichuan Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $558 for 11,646 km each way, that works out to about $24 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $40 that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 24 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Guangzhou, this fare ranks 2nd — 5% above the $530 from San Francisco. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 58 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles, where the middle fare is $712.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 22% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $582 then versus $709 now, across 7 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 $428, on Aug 30.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 13 of 93 days priced, from 34 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Oct · around $558
46% below the $1,040 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Los Angeles → Guangzhou · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Baiyun (CAN)
- Flight time
- ~18 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~11,646 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,040 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Sichuan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Dec
LA → CAN, answered.
Is $558 a good price for Los Angeles to Guangzhou?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $1,040 round-trip. At $558 you're 46% below that, saving about $482, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Los Angeles to Guangzhou?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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 LA → 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 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 Guangzhou?
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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