Route brief · SFO → CAN
San Francisco → Guangzhou
$530
−37% vs typical
seasonal median $845 · difference $315
Nov 28 – Dec 12 · 14 nights
China Eastern1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $750–$894
- Board rank
- Stronger than 86%
- Route sample
- 6 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 6 months, Nov is the cheapest for SF → CAN. Best time to be there: Oct–Dec.
Fares bottom out in November around $530 and peak in January near $907 — a $377 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 16.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $530 for 11,091 km each way, that works out to about $24 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $40 that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 27 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Guangzhou, this is the cheapest right now — 5% under the next one, Los Angeles. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 52 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco, where the middle fare is $804.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $829 then versus $843 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 $462, on Nov 9.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 11 of 122 days priced, from 28 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
December 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $530
37% below the $845 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · San Francisco → Guangzhou · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Baiyun (CAN)
- Flight time
- ~16.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~11,091 km each way
- Typical price
- $845 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Dec
SF → CAN, answered.
Is $530 a good price for San Francisco to Guangzhou?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $845 round-trip. At $530 you're 37% below that, saving about $315, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from San Francisco to Guangzhou?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 SF → 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 6 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from San Francisco to Guangzhou?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Eastern. 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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