Route brief · WAS → CAN
Washington → Guangzhou
$1,053
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Jan 10 '27 – Jan 24 '27 · 14 nights
Qatar Airways1 stop
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.
Best time to be in Guangzhou: Oct–Dec. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 20 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Qatar Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,053 for 13,035 km each way, that works out to about $40 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 14 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Guangzhou, this fare ranks 11th — 2.0× the $530 we hold from San Francisco. For context, the middle fare among the 26 routes of similar length we watch out of Washington is $995. We have 2 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 21% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $897 then versus $1,087 now, across 3 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 $678, on Oct 13.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ Baiyun (CAN)
- Flight time
- ~20 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~13,035 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Qatar Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Dec
WAS → CAN, answered.
How far in advance should I book WAS → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Washington to Guangzhou?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Qatar Airways. 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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