Beijing to Tehran flight

Flights from Beijing to Tehran start at €539.99 and take 11h 28m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Beijing to Tehran starts at €539.99 and takes 11h 28m door to door, run by 1 operator over 5,769 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 9 September 2026Priced for 28 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 11h 28mDoor to door
  • 8h 18mMoving
  • €539.99From
  • 853.8 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€487.48
  1. Air Astana AA386107:305h 12m12:42Beijing NAYAlmaty ALA
  2. Qeshm Airlines QA179814:023h 29m17:31Almaty ALATehran THR

Changes at Almaty, with 80 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 13h 11mCO2 1090.1 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€579.52
  1. Mahan Air MA801506:438h 18m15:01Beijing PKXTehran IKA

Door to door 11h 28mCO2 853.8 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Mahan Air€554.7410h 51m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Mahan Air

Tehran is big enough that where you sleep decides what the days look like. We sell the seat, not the room.

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Tehran Railway Station

Sort by distance from Tehran Railway Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Beijing to Tehran

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €477.4590 days
  2. €452.0860 days
  3. €516.3945 days
  4. €500.4630 days
  5. €575.3921 days
  6. €539.9914 days
  7. €664.487 days
  8. €931.163 days
  9. €1,205.511 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €452.08.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 167 percent. The dearest point is €1,205.51, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €704.01Sun
  2. €640.88Mon
  3. €601.94Tue
  4. €575.39Wed
  5. €715.22Thu
  6. €764.78Fri
  7. €719.35Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Beijing

Air
  • PEK
  • PKX
  • NAY

Tehran

Air
  • IKA
  • THR
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 5,769 km against 5,601 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Baku, Almaty, Tashkent, Ürümqi. The gap between arriving and leaving is 69 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Beijing at 06:43 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Beijing to Tehran

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Beijing to Tehran take?

The Flight from Beijing to Tehran takes 11h 28m door to door, of which 8h 18m is spent moving. The route runs 5,769 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Beijing to Tehran cost?

The Flight from Beijing to Tehran starts at €539.99 for one passenger, checked on 28 September 2026. A typical fare is €544.71. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Beijing to Tehran?

1 operators run the Flight from Beijing to Tehran: Mahan Air. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Beijing to Tehran use?

The Flight from Beijing to Tehran leaves from Beijing PKX and arrives at Tehran IKA. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Beijing to Tehran?

Fares for the Flight from Beijing to Tehran bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €452.08. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 167 percent, measured on 28 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Beijing to Tehran produce?

The Flight from Beijing to Tehran produces about 853.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 5769 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Beijing to Tehran on 9 September 2026: 5769 km of route against 5601 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €539.99, and 11h 28m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

Landing at IKA after the trains have stopped is the case this solves. We do not run cars.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Tehran

Settled in advance, so the ride into Tehran costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

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