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 → CAN
Sydney to Guangzhou
Best fare, round trip
$525
−12%
below its usual $595
you keep $70
Found
- Depart
- Mon 9 Nov
- Return
- Sun 15 Nov
- Stay
- 6 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 13h
- Airline
Tianjin Airlines
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $547 and $757. The drop beats 29% of measured fares on the board, over 7 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
ChinaGuangzhouCantonese cooking at its source, and China Southern’s hub — often the cheapest way into the country.Best windowOct–DecAirportsBaiyun (CAN)Every route into GuangzhouFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in November around $525 and peak in January near $925, 76% dearer, across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Tianjin Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $525 for 7,502 km each way, that works out to about $35 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Guangzhou, this fare ranks 5th — 16% above the $452 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 18 routes of similar length we watch out of Sydney, where the middle fare is $536. The best time to be in Guangzhou: Oct–Dec.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 23% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $617 then versus $757 now, across 21 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 $446, on 2 Nov.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 11 of 107 days priced, from 61 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
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January 2027
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Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $525
12% below the $595 typical fare
$547Oct, below the usual price. Compare October fares.$525Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$757Dec, above the usual price. Compare December fares.$925Jan ’27, above the usual price. Compare January fares.$547Feb, below the usual price. Compare February fares.$597Mar, around the usual price. Compare March fares.$634Apr, above the usual price. Compare April fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Sydney to Guangzhou, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Kingsford Smith (SYD) ↔ Baiyun (CAN)
- Flight time
- ≈13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈7,502 km each way
- Typical price
- $595 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Tianjin Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Dec
Good to know
SYD → CAN, answered.
Is $525 a good price for Sydney to Guangzhou?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $595 round-trip and this fare is 12% 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 Guangzhou?
Across 7 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 SYD → 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, 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 Guangzhou?
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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