Route brief · MNL → PEK
Manila → Beijing
$218
−18% vs typical
seasonal median $265 · difference $47
Oct 3 – Oct 10 · 7 nights
Shenzhen Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $265–$398
- Board rank
- Stronger than 49%
- 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, Oct is the cheapest for MNL → PEK. Best time to be there: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Fares bottom out in October around $218 and peak in February near $410 — a $192 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 6 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Shenzhen Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $218 for 2,865 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Manila, where the middle fare is $218.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Oct 3 · $218 (22% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $268 then versus $288 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 $210, on Sep 5.
Cheapest in Oct · around $218
18% below the $265 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Manila → Beijing · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ~6 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,865 km each way
- Typical price
- $265 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Shenzhen Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
MNL → PEK, answered.
Is $218 a good price for Manila to Beijing?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $265 round-trip and this fare is 18% under it, about $47. 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 Manila to Beijing?
Across 7 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 MNL → 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, 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 Manila to Beijing?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Shenzhen 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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