Route brief · NYC → PEK
New York → Beijing
$764
−24% vs typical
seasonal median $1,010 · difference $246
Feb 28 '27 – Mar 7 '27 · 7 nights
Asiana Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $971–$1,235
- Board rank
- Stronger than 66%
- 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, Feb is the cheapest for NYC → PEK. Best time to be there: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Fares bottom out in February around $764 and peak in January near $1,364 — a $600 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 18 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Asiana Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $764 for 10,968 km each way, that works out to about $35 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this fare ranks 8th — 43% above the $534 from Sydney. For context, the middle fare among the 24 routes of similar length we watch out of New York is $745.
The 7 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,070 then versus $1,035 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 $707, on Aug 24.
- Tue, Sep 8$1,047
- Wed, Sep 9$1,023
- Thu, Sep 10$1,047
- Fri, Sep 11$1,098
- Wed, Sep 16$916
- Tue, Sep 29$978
- Mon, Oct 19$942
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.
Cheapest in Feb · around $764
24% below the $1,010 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · New York → Beijing · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ~18 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,968 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,010 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Asiana Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
NYC → PEK, answered.
Is $764 a good price for New York to Beijing?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $1,010 round-trip. At $764 you're 24% below that, saving about $246, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from New York to Beijing?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Feb 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 NYC → 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, Feb comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from New York to Beijing?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Asiana 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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