Route brief · STO → PEK
Stockholm → Beijing
$623
−12% vs typical
seasonal median $710 · difference $87
Oct 21 – Nov 4 · 14 nights
KLM1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $668–$818
- Board rank
- Stronger than 28%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPEKBeijingImperial 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)All routes into BeijingWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Oct is the cheapest for STO → PEK. Best time to be there: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Fares bottom out in October around $623 and peak in April near $921 — a $298 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under KLM, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $623 for 6,701 km each way, that works out to about $46 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 20 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this fare ranks 6th — 2.0× the $314 we hold from Jakarta. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 22 routes of similar length we watch out of Stockholm, where the middle fare is $623.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 27% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $747 then versus $949 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 $593, on Aug 20.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 12 of 122 days priced, from 71 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
September 2026
November 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $623
12% below the $710 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Stockholm → Beijing · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Arlanda (ARN) · Bromma (BMA) · Skavsta (NYO) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ~13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,701 km each way
- Typical price
- $710 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- KLM
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
STO → PEK, answered.
Is $623 a good price for Stockholm to Beijing?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $710 round-trip and this fare is 12% under it, about $87. 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 Stockholm to Beijing?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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 STO → 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 5 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 Stockholm to Beijing?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under KLM. 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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