Route brief · MEX → PEK
Mexico City → Beijing
$1,115
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 24 – Nov 10 · 17 nights
Volaris3 stops
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.
Best time to be in Beijing: Sep–Oct · Apr–May. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 3 stops and takes about 26 hours outbound, on a 17-night trip — ticketed under Volaris, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,115 for 12,434 km each way, that works out to about $45 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this fare ranks 9th — 1.9× the $590 we hold from Los Angeles. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of Mexico City, where the middle fare is $1,191. We have 3 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The 8 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 55% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $2,885 then versus $1,293 now, across 5 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 $1,187, on Aug 26.
- Mon, Sep 21$1,192
- Wed, Sep 23$1,295
- Thu, Sep 24$1,366
- Sat, Oct 17$1,291
- Thu, Oct 22$1,281
- Sat, Oct 24$1,224
- Sun, Oct 25$1,338
- Mon, Nov 30$1,367
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- Benito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ~26 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~12,434 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Volaris
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
MEX → PEK, answered.
How far in advance should I book MEX → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Mexico City to Beijing?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Volaris. 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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