Route brief · SEL → CAN
Seoul → Guangzhou
$196
−7% vs typical
seasonal median $210 · difference $14
Sep 18 – Sep 23 · 5 nights
China Eastern1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $201–$312
- Board rank
- Stronger than 11%
- 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, Sep is the cheapest for SEL → CAN. Best time to be there: Oct–Dec.
Fares bottom out in September around $196 and peak in February near $366 — a $170 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 5 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $196 for 2,071 km each way, that works out to about $47 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Guangzhou, this fare ranks 3rd — 33% above the $147 from Kuala Lumpur.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Sep 18 · $196 (8% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 9% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $227 then versus $206 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 $187, on Sep 2.
September 2026
December 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $196
7% below the $210 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Seoul → Guangzhou · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP) ↔ Baiyun (CAN)
- Flight time
- ~5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,071 km each way
- Typical price
- $210 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Dec
SEL → CAN, answered.
Is $196 a good price for Seoul to Guangzhou?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $210 round-trip and this fare is 7% under it, about $14. 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 Seoul to Guangzhou?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Sep 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 SEL → 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, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Seoul 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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