Route brief · VIE → PEK
Vienna → Beijing
$544
−27% vs typical
seasonal median $750 · difference $206
Sep 13 – Sep 19 · 6 nights
Hainan Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $646–$908
- Board rank
- Stronger than 73%
- Route sample
- 7 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 7 months, Sep is the cheapest for VIE → PEK. Best time to be there: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Fares bottom out in September around $544 and peak in March near $940 — a $396 spread 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 Hainan Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $544 for 7,458 km each way, that works out to about $36 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 22 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this fare ranks 4th — 4% above the $525 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 28 routes of similar length we watch out of Vienna, where the middle fare is $657.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 1 · $553 (33% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $823 then versus $828 now, across 8 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 $550, on Sep 22.
October 2026
November 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $544
27% below the $750 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Vienna → Beijing · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Schwechat (VIE) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ~13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,458 km each way
- Typical price
- $750 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Hainan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
VIE → PEK, answered.
Is $544 a good price for Vienna to Beijing?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $750 round-trip. At $544 you're 27% below that, saving about $206, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Vienna to Beijing?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Sep 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 VIE → 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 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 Vienna to Beijing?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Hainan Airlines. 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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