Rare1 stop · 12h
SYD to HANVietnam
Hanoi
$484
usually $885
−45%
Most monthly lows $487–$885. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · SYD → PEK
Sydney to Beijing
Best fare, round trip
$541
−17%
below its usual $650
you keep $109
Found
- Depart
- Mon 9 Nov
- Return
- Sun 15 Nov
- Stay
- 6 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 13.5h
- Airline
Tianjin Airlines
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $624 and $783. The drop beats 47% of measured fares on the board, over 6 observed months.
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.
Fares bottom out in November around $541 and peak in December near $860, 59% dearer, across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Tianjin Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $541 for 8,958 km each way, that works out to about $30 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 per 1,000 km that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 27 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this fare ranks 4th — 5% above the $516 from Vienna. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 19 routes of similar length we watch out of Sydney, where the middle fare is $668. The best time to be in Beijing: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $684 then versus $690 now, across 23 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 $456, on 13 Oct.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 16 of 107 days priced, from 92 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
1234567Sunday 8 November: $646. Compare fares from this day.Monday 9 November: $541. Compare fares from this day.1011Thursday 12 November: $565. Compare fares from this day.Friday 13 November: $618. Compare fares from this day.141516171819Friday 20 November: $688. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 21 November: $904. Compare fares from this day.2223Tuesday 24 November: $755. Compare fares from this day.252627282930
December 2026
January 2027
123456789101112Wednesday 13 January: $783. Compare fares from this day.141516171819202122232425262728293031
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $541
17% below the $650 typical fare
$624Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$541Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$860Dec, above the usual price. Compare December fares.$783Jan ’27, above the usual price. Compare January fares.$651Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$637Mar, around the usual price. Compare March fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Sydney to Beijing, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Kingsford Smith (SYD) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ≈13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,958 km each way
- Typical price
- $650 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Tianjin Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
Good to know
SYD → PEK, answered.
Is $541 a good price for Sydney to Beijing?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $650 round-trip and this fare is 17% under it. 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 Sydney to Beijing?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 SYD → 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 6 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Sydney to Beijing?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Tianjin 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.
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