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$420 Find Cheap Flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco

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These are the airlines KAYAK users have selected most often from within our search results in flight searches from Guangzhou to San Francisco, as well as popular online travel agencies
These are the airlines KAYAK users have selected most often from within our search results in flight searches from Guangzhou to San Francisco, as well as popular online travel agencies
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Everything you should know

Cheapest round-trip
$617
Overall average: $983
China Eastern
Mon 2/2Mon 4/20
CAN - SFO • 1 stop
Cheapest non-stop
$934
Typical prices: $893-$1,093
China Southern
Sat 2/7Sat 2/21
CAN - SFO • Non-stop
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China Eastern
Cheapest • from $617 (round-trip)
Asiana Airlines
Best reviews • 8.2 score
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When to travel
December
Cheapest • 27% price drop
February
Most popular
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Nonstop flights
2 days a week
There are direct flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco 2 days a week: Tue, Sat.
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Cheap Flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco (CAN-SFO)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
Discover the best prices for you by selecting your travel dates on KAYAK.

Recent round-trip flight deals from Guangzhou to San Francisco

Mon, Feb 2 - Mon, Apr 20
China Eastern Logo
7:30 am - 9:00 am
CAN
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SFO
17h 30m1 stop
China Eastern Logo
12:00 pm - 12:50 am
SFO
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CAN
21h 50m1 stop
$617China Eastern
Mon, Feb 2 - Mon, Apr 20
China Eastern Logo
9:00 am - 9:00 am
CAN
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SFO
16h 00m1 stop
China Eastern Logo
12:00 pm - 3:50 pm
SFO
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CAN
36h 50m1 stop
$654China Eastern
Thu, Mar 12 - Sun, Mar 15
Vietnam Airlines Logo
3:20 pm - 6:00 pm
CAN
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SFO
17h 40m1 stop
Vietnam Airlines Logo
10:10 pm - 2:10 pm
SFO
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CAN
25h 00m1 stop
$692Vietnam Airlines
Sat, Apr 4 - Mon, Apr 6
Asiana Airlines Logo
12:25 pm - 3:00 pm
CAN
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SFO
17h 35m1 stop
Asiana Airlines Logo
11:30 pm - 11:15 am
SFO
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CAN
20h 45m1 stop
$737Asiana Airlines
Fri, Jan 30 - Fri, Feb 6
Multiple Airlines Logo
5:00 am - 12:30 pm
CAN
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SFO
23h 30m2 stops
Multiple Airlines Logo
2:30 pm - 9:00 pm
SFO
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CAN
38h 30m2 stops
$744Multiple Airlines
Mon, May 25 - Thu, Jul 2
China Eastern Logo
7:30 am - 9:05 am
CAN
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SFO
16h 35m1 stop
China Eastern Logo
12:00 pm - 12:50 am
SFO
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CAN
21h 50m1 stop
$793China Eastern
Fri, Jan 30 - Fri, Feb 6
Cathay Pacific Logo
10:15 am - 9:30 am
CAN
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SFO
15h 15m1 stop
Cathay Pacific Logo
11:25 am - 8:55 am
SFO
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CAN
29h 30m1 stop
$799Cathay Pacific
Tue, May 26 - Wed, Jul 1
Asiana Airlines Logo
12:25 pm - 3:00 pm
CAN
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SFO
17h 35m1 stop
Asiana Airlines Logo
11:30 pm - 11:15 am
SFO
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CAN
20h 45m1 stop
$800Asiana Airlines
Mon, Feb 2 - Tue, May 26
Cathay Pacific Logo
10:15 pm - 9:15 pm
CAN
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SFO
15h 00m1 stop
Cathay Pacific Logo
12:55 pm - 8:55 am
SFO
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CAN
29h 00m1 stop
$802Cathay Pacific
Fri, Jan 30 - Fri, Feb 6
Cathay Pacific Logo
5:00 am - 9:30 am
CAN
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SFO
20h 30m1 stop
Cathay Pacific Logo
11:25 am - 8:55 am
SFO
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CAN
29h 30m1 stop
$805Cathay Pacific
Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for Guangzhou to San Francisco flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Guangzhou to San Francisco?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

If you are looking for a flight deal from Guangzhou to San Francisco, look for departures on Tuesdays and avoid leaving on a Monday, as it's usually the priciest day. When flying back from San Francisco, Thursday is the cheapest day to fly and Friday is the most expensive.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Guangzhou to San Francisco?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco is December, where tickets cost $678 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are January and May, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $1,336 and $1,123 respectively.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Guangzhou to San Francisco?

The average round-trip price for all non-stop flights, flights with one layover, and flights with two layovers for the route found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

No, with an average price for the route of $987, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Guangzhou to San Francisco?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from Guangzhou to San Francisco, you should book around 1 week before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 9 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonJune
Cheapest flight$420
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 14% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 5% increase in price.
Flight from Guangzhou to San Francisco

When to book flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Guangzhou to San Francisco based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
Estimated round-trip price
KAYAK looks at all historical flight data for each date to provide a predicted price for one-way trips or round-trips with a duration up to 40 days. While we try to provide actual minimum prices for each date, some prices are predictions and actual prices may differ.

FAQs for booking flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco

  • What is the cheapest flight from Guangzhou to San Francisco?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Guangzhou to San Francisco was $420 for a one-way ticket and $617 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Guangzhou and San Francisco?

    A passport is required to fly from Guangzhou to San Francisco.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Guangzhou to San Francisco?

    The Boeing 777-300ER is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the Guangzhou to San Francisco flight route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco?

    SkyTeam, Star Alliance, and oneworld are the airline alliances operating flights between Guangzhou and San Francisco, with SkyTeam being the most commonly used for this route.

  • On which days can I fly direct from Guangzhou to San Francisco?

    You can catch a nonstop flight from Guangzhou to San Francisco on on Tuesday, and Saturday.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco, Asiana Airlines or Cathay Pacific?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco are Asiana Airlines and Cathay Pacific. With an average price for the route of $784 and an overall rating of 8.2, Asiana Airlines is the most popular choice. Cathay Pacific is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $867 and an overall rating of 7.6.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Guangzhou to San Francisco?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to San Francisco from Guangzhou is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Guangzhou to San Francisco?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to San Francisco with an airline and back to Guangzhou with another airline. Booking your flights between Guangzhou and SFO can sometimes prove cheaper using this method.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Guangzhou to San Francisco?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to San Francisco from Guangzhou up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

KAYAK’s top tips for finding a cheap flight from Guangzhou to San Francisco

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $588 or less one-way and $1,062 or less round-trip.

Prefer to fly direct from Guangzhou to San Francisco?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from Guangzhou Baiyun to San Francisco.
Find which airlines fly direct from Guangzhou Baiyun Airport to San Francisco Airport, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

Guangzhou Baiyun to San Francisco

Tuesday

China Southern

China Southern

Saturday

China Southern

China Southern

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Direct returns

San Francisco to Guangzhou Baiyun

Tuesday

China Southern

China Southern

Saturday

China Southern

China Southern

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Guangzhou to San Francisco

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Guangzhou to San Francisco. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Guangzhou to San Francisco? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
8.2
Asiana AirlinesOverall score based on 493 reviews
8.1Comfort
8.1Food
8.4Boarding
8.6Crew
7.7Entertainment
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The customer service was excellent. They noticed that our connecting flight was scheduled too closely for us to complete customs, so they changed the flight. Our initial flight was delayed, and they were able to get us on another flight, all without charging us any additional fees. I would fly them again anytime!

10.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Nov 2025
CJU - GMP
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The customer service was excellent. They noticed that our connecting flight was scheduled too closely for us to complete customs, so they changed the flight. Our initial flight was delayed, and they were able to get us on another flight, all without charging us any additional fees. I would fly them again anytime!

Better screens, it would have been nice to have more comfortable seats.

2nd major delay due to maintenance issues. 1st delay missed my connecting flight.

It was great, but my bag was not loaded onto the connecting flight. I'm currently getting it resolved. If this isn't a problem, everything else was excellent.

Very clean ,flight attendants very professional,nice , Boarding was very easy

The aircraft was massive (A-380) and became crowded with 400+ passengers on board.

The plane hasnt left im stuck in seatle still my flight has been grounded for almost 5 hours

Coming back to America was a peaceful flight everyone and everything was perfect

The beefsteak on the lunch menu was excellent! I usually do not eat airplane food. I loved it.

Flight was too cold. I wore a regular cotton tee and it wasn’t enough. It was a night time flight so I would have thought a blanket would be provided to passengers. A 4 hour flight and no options for a meal? I flew Asiana the next day from Seoul to Manilla. Same duration, 4 hours. They give everyone a pillow and blanket and serve a meal. Why is United so cheap and holding back meals and amenities? Also, they promote too much gay stuff and DEI in their advertisements. Please be mindful of other beliefs and don’t shove your gay ideology down my throat.

I wish there were more bathrooms available on these larger carriers.

My flight was suppose to be at 7:45pm to fly but it didnt fly out until 8:55 to dallas so then all of my other flights was late and delay ihad to wait at the airport for extra 14 hours to be able to get on a different plane

Super delayed. Unnecessary. Need more competent people doing logistics to keep things moving on time. Totally unacceptable.

Overall, not good. Super late boarding in Hong Kong because some last minute issue with a plane. The boarding process is chaotic. Kathy Pacific should seek to do better with punctual departure time. Caused a lot of trouble with missed connecting flight.

Not much of anything could have been done better unless I had a first class ticket. I was literally 15 hours with an airline in the economy class. Very professional friendly and attentive crew. Good airline food, clean cabin, seating area and bathrooms. I've been 4 times back-and-forth with Cathay Pacific, and I would not choose another airline for this trip. Five out of five stars.

It's basically 15 hours with an airline in economy class. There's really not much of anything that could have been done better unless I had a first class ticket. Cathay Pacific does excellent work, with a very professional, friendly and attentive crew. It's literally the only airline that I will fly to Southeast Asia.

Crew on this flight dedicate their business class service to their high priority members. They would get priority service even the seats are behind me, and meals priority service and orders. I get the left over choices. I refused to eat because I felt discriminated, never booking this airline.

Issues: 1) the charging issue as described in my previous survey 2) when I requested diet coke during the breakfast time, it is not available. Why? I can't drink diet coke in the morning? 3) when I tried to transfer to this flight, its gate information was not available to me?

The lead business class attendant was excellent. Made a point of greeting you and knowing your name by the time you leave.

A lot of things Never flying with this airline again Had an emergency landing

Food and welcome services were good , however we experienced issues with the entertainment system and poor headsets

Very good flight and very kind crew Only thing is I wish there would be a vegetarian option for the meals

Lovely staff, comfortable seats. Transit time was short but they had great processes in place to get us on the plane.

For a domestic flight, seats are ok, but fir us as tall dutchies, the legroom is too small. However, for a short and affordable flight, is not a big problem. Staff is still very nice and a complementary water very welcome.

2 hours delay, time changes started already 2 days before the flight

Average, not more then that. Cannot compete with Singapore Airlines

I bought the front row seat and made and early online check in but they changed my seat to the back row without prior notice. The inflight meal was too poor, only a piece of small finger food. The boarding is a disaster, everyone is stuffed in a bus in chaos. Doesnt worth the money at all.

Poor. Flight was delay without prior notice. Poor boarding. Poor meal service. Plane was dirty and smelly. Does not worth the money.

Overall very nice airline. The seats were cloth unlike leather seats I am accustom to on planes. The food was adequate. I had to use a paper boarding pass as they do not like electronic boarding passes. I scanned my electronic pass, but the gate agent requested the paper pass. Luckily I had a paper pass, although my electronic pass worked and when the paper pass was scanned it stated I was already on board.

I am a bit upset with the check in counter, I signed up a wheelchair for my mom so they wouldn’t grant us her boarding pass. We got to the airport a couple of hours earlier and they had us wait and no one ever gave us her boarding pass or the wheelchair, I had to go back and complain when it was already time for our flight to board. Since we got their earlier, I could have easily pushed my mom myself and we could have relaxed and went to the lounge while waiting… when I finally got someone to help us he couldn’t explain how and why they dismissed us in the first place.

In my return flight they couldn’t identify my ticket or boarding pass, I had to go to 3 different counters until I was able to get my boarding pass. The food was on, it was the bear minimum. They didn’t even recognise that I was a Muslim and can’t eat meat, chicken or pork. In one of the trays I believe they served me pork. The staff were very pleasant, but they need to be aware of their surroundings more carefully, one of them stuck her lower belly right into my face! I was shocked and very uncomfortable.

Overall I had good experience with China Southern airline. Nothing to claim. I hoped they could improve the meal quality that is.

Wow very impressed by the quality and attentiveness of service of China Southern. Lived the blankets! Will definitely fly with them again. Despite language barriers, a few attendants know enough English to understand our rudimentary Mandarin and respond to basic questions. Although they don’t explain the beverage and meal service on the website or ticketing documents, they offered regular beverage cart and snacks during the beginning hours and end hours of the long, transoceanic flight. A full meal at the beginning and end of the flight as well, and a midflight small sandwich (dinner roll sized) but we weren’t hungry and didn’t try that one. The expectation is that every sleeps during the middle of the flight. We were on a “redeye” departure from LAX with a morning arrival in China, so I don’t know if this service pattern is the same for other flights. The domestic flight we took from Guangzhou to Harbin offered conventional refreshments and meals like a US flight service. Note that they didn’t offer diet sodas. If you like to stay hydrated, I recommend bringing plenty of your own. It is served in small cups like any other drink. You can ask for a bottle but they’re tiny - about 6 ounces.

China Southern was not the problem. I booked my flight through Kayak and also received a booking reference and alert details regarding departure time and gate numbers… however Kayak NEVER actually booked my flight! We were stranded at the airport without a flight for a long awaited holiday!

The connection between LA and Atlanta was too much stress

Terrible boarding experience,,food is very poor that I I . Never going book this airline again.

The crew were kind, patient and responsive. The service was excellent, even though we travelled the cheapest economy class. We arrived at our destination 40 min early, which for a 15+ hour flight is a great bonus. The boarding seemed a bit "loose", but got us boarded on time, and the plane was off exactly @ 0:30 hrs.

The airport didn‘t give me the ticket. I called customer service to ask for a refund but they kept giving me a perfunctory response and refused to refund me.

The flight was delayed hours and most flights from CS are always delayed. Plane was efficient and got us home but not the best food and no entertainment system at all.

Not good - chair back could not move back for premium economy. Not worth the price

Small plane with only two lavatories at the back. You must have a good plan to use it before or after the meal, if you make a bad decision, you will end up with standing in front of the toilet for a while till the food carts empty. The good thing is even there’s a slightly delayed, the plane is still arriving on time which is superb!!

The only personel that smiled at all were the flights attendants. Desk agents, lounge people none of them had a smile or even a hello. They were like dealing with dead fish. Again flight attendants were good. All other personnel looked like they didn’t want to be there or help.

good flight. food is only so so. I actually did not eat the snack. it does not look too good on the passenger next to me.

Food no variations only beef of chicken no veggie meals

Super surprised with the entire experience. Business class is incredible. Flight attendants around the world could learn customer service from these people. Simply fabulous experience all the way around.

Pillow and blanket are dirty. My son got multiple bites during the flight

Flight was on time. My group paid for seat’s so that us four can be seated next to each other. We all got separated. We all got middle seats, which made it more difficult to be able to get up and stretch or use the restroom. We tried talking to the employees at China Eastern and they were of no help. We will not be taking this flight or recommend this route to others in the future. Also I will be contacting customer service on how I can get our money back for paying for assigned seats.

China eastern was fantastic. I had read so many bad reviews that had made me nervous. However, I found that the flight attendant’s, and customer service check in etc. etc. was excellent. I had no problems. I would fly with them again!

Excellent! I had read some negative reviews but I found out that it was not all was not true! The staff was courteous and helpful. The flight take off and landing was nice & easy. The food was good! I asked for a second and I got it easily and without an attitude! All was wonderful!

Excellent experience however older aeroplanes used by China Eastern Airlines.

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