ExceptionalNonstop · 1.5h
SFO to LASUnited States
Las Vegas
$61
usually $155
−61%
Most monthly lows $130–$295. Cheaper than every other month on record (5).
Flights · SFO → PEK
San Francisco to Beijing
Best fare, round trip
$1,137
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Sat 26 Dec
- Return
- Sat 16 Jan
- Stay
- 21 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 18.5h
- Airline
Alaska Airlines
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.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 18.5 hours outbound, on a 21-night trip — ticketed under Alaska Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,137 for 9,478 km each way, that works out to about $60 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 26 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this fare ranks 26th — 2.2× the $516 we hold from Vienna. For context, the middle fare among the 42 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco is $835. We have 1 month 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Beijing: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
Press a date to compare its fares
The median cached fare across this calendar is 35% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $865 then versus $1,164 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 $779, on 24 Aug.
- Wed 16 Dec$1,079lowest
- Mon 21 Dec$1,415
- Tue 22 Dec$1,164
- Wed 23 Dec$1,238
- Thu 24 Dec$1,136
- Sat 26 Dec$1,137
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.
Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ≈18.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈9,478 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Alaska Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
Good to know
SF → PEK, answered.
How far in advance should I book SF → 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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from San Francisco to Beijing?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Alaska 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.
Next step
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Lock the flight first — then compare stays for 26 Dec – 16 Jan '27 · 21 nights.
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