Rare2 stops · 12.5h
NYC to HNLUnited States
Honolulu
$410
usually $820
−50%
Most monthly lows $576–$946. Cheaper than every other month on record (8).
Flights · NYC → PEK
New York to Beijing
Best fare, round trip
$890
−10%
below its usual $985
you keep $95
Found
- Depart
- Sun 29 Nov
- Return
- Sat 5 Dec
- Stay
- 6 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 18.5h
- Airline
Turkish Airlines
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $892 and $1,083. The drop beats 21% of measured fares on the board, over 7 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 January around $555 and peak in June near $1,083, 95% dearer, across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 18.5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $890 for 10,968 km each way, that works out to about $41 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 15 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this fare ranks 9th — 1.7× the $521 we hold from Madrid. For context, the middle fare among the 23 routes of similar length we watch out of New York is $757. 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 4% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,070 then versus $1,117 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 $543, on 28 Nov.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 19 of 109 days priced, from 95 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
123456789101112131415161718Thursday 19 November: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.Friday 20 November: $975. Compare fares from this day.2122232425262728Sunday 29 November: $890. Compare fares from this day.30
December 2026
1234567891011121314151617Friday 18 December: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 19 December: $1.8k. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 20 December: $1.6k. Compare fares from this day.Monday 21 December: $1.5k. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 22 December: $1.6k. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 23 December: $1.7k. Compare fares from this day.24Friday 25 December: $1.6k. Compare fares from this day.2627Monday 28 December: $1.3k. Compare fares from this day.293031
January 2027
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Jan, around $555
44% below the $985 typical fare
$1000Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$890Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$1078Dec, above the usual price. Compare December fares.$555Jan ’27, the cheapest month. Compare January fares.$892Mar, below the usual price. Compare March fares.$986Apr, around the usual price. Compare April fares.$1083Jun, above the usual price. Compare June fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, New York to Beijing, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ≈18.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈10,968 km each way
- Typical price
- $985 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
Good to know
NYC → PEK, answered.
Is $890 a good price for New York to Beijing?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $985 round-trip and this fare is 10% under it. 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 New York to Beijing?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Jan 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, Jan comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from New York to Beijing?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Turkish 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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