Route brief · NYC → CAN
New York → Guangzhou
$578
−41% vs typical
seasonal median $975 · difference $397
Oct 14 – Oct 28 · 14 nights
Cathay Pacific1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $948–$1,100
- Board rank
- Stronger than 90%
- Route sample
- 7 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 7 months, Oct is the cheapest for NYC → CAN. Best time to be there: Oct–Dec.
Fares bottom out in October around $578 and peak in December near $1,254 — a $676 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 17.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Cathay Pacific, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $578 for 12,876 km each way, that works out to about $22 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $40 that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 15 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Guangzhou, this fare ranks 4th — 9% above the $530 from San Francisco. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 29 routes of similar length we watch out of New York, where the middle fare is $784.
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 9% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,108 then versus $1,009 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 $607, on Oct 3.
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 Oct · around $578
41% below the $975 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · New York → Guangzhou · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Baiyun (CAN)
- Flight time
- ~17.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~12,876 km each way
- Typical price
- $975 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Cathay Pacific
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Dec
NYC → CAN, answered.
Is $578 a good price for New York to Guangzhou?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $975 round-trip. At $578 you're 41% below that, saving about $397, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from New York to Guangzhou?
Across 7 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 NYC → 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 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 New York to Guangzhou?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Cathay Pacific. 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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