The temple roof and skyline. Wat Phra That Doi Suthep. Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Beijing to Chiang Mai

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Beijing to Chiang Mai. From €239.68, fastest 7h 20m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Beijing to Chiang Mai runs about 5 times a day, with the first departure around 06:09 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays €239.68, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 7h 20m over 2,966 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked 18 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €239.68, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares · Priced for 5 October 2026

€239.68

  • 312%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Beijing

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:09First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 5Services per day
  • 20%Run direct

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €753.57Sat19
  2. about €625.54Sun20
  3. about €552.38Mon21
  4. about €376.56Tue22
  5. about €465.06Wed23
  6. about €543.53Thu24
  7. about €478.04Fri25
  8. about €424.94Sat26
  9. about €443.82Sun27
  10. about €285.70Mon28
  11. about €318.15Tue29
  12. about €327.00Wed30
  13. about €411.96Thu1
  14. about €358.86Fri2
  15. about €275.08Sat3
  16. about €283.93Sun4
  17. about €239.68Mon5
  18. about €243.22Tue6
  19. about €256.79Wed7
  20. about €300.45Thu8
  21. about €270.36Fri9

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

The flight gets you into Chiang Mai. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Chiang Mai for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Chiang Mai 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 Chiang Mai

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

  1. €381.8790 days
  2. €194.8460 days
  3. €183.0445 days
  4. €269.7730 days
  5. €270.3621 days
  6. €358.8614 days
  7. €478.047 days
  8. €552.383 days
  9. €753.571 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €183.04.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 312 percent. The dearest point is €753.57, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€753.57€183.04137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 45 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Beijing to Chiang Mai and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

1 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.

The shape of it

2,966 km

2,880 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services take. The bearing runs south-west.

Who lives at each end

18,960,744127,240

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

0/2

2 of these connections were inferred from service-area overlap rather than observed in a timetable. We would rather say so.

The route

BeijingBeijingChiang MaiChiang Mai
The journey

What the journey 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 2,966 km against 2,880 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 Kunming, Chongqing, Wuhan, Guangzhou. 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.

The fare from CNX into Chiang Mai is the one price on this journey we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Chiang Mai

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

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

Who runs this route

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Chiang Mai Railway Station

Most of the points near Chiang Mai Railway Station open before the first train and shut after the last one.

Partner links. We do not run these networks. We earn a commission on a booking, and the price is the same as going direct.

Questions about Beijing to Chiang Mai

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 it take to get from Beijing to Chiang Mai?

The fastest journey from Beijing to Chiang Mai takes 7h 20m door to door, of which 4h 32m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 7h 34m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Beijing to Chiang Mai?

The cheapest fare from Beijing to Chiang Mai is €239.68, as of 18 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €363.58. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Beijing to Chiang Mai?

The cheapest way from Beijing to Chiang Mai is by flight, at €239.68 for one passenger on 5 October 2026. That journey takes 7h 42m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Beijing to Chiang Mai?

Fares from Beijing to Chiang Mai bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €183.04. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 312 percent, measured on 18 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Beijing to Chiang Mai?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Beijing to Chiang Mai, at €285.70. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 18 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Beijing to Chiang Mai?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Beijing to Chiang Mai, at €204.28 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs services from Beijing to Chiang Mai?

No operator record names Beijing to Chiang Mai directly. Air China publish service areas covering both ends and may serve it, so we list them as possible operators rather than confirmed ones.

Is there a direct service from Beijing to Chiang Mai?

20 percent of the services we sell from Beijing to Chiang Mai are direct. The rest connect at Kunming, Chongqing, Wuhan, Guangzhou, with about 69 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Beijing to Chiang Mai use?

Services from Beijing to Chiang Mai by flight leave from Beijing PEK and arrive at Chiang Mai CNX. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Beijing to Chiang Mai?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Beijing to Chiang Mai allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Beijing to Chiang Mai on 18 September 2026: 2966 km of route against 2880 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €239.68, and 7h 20m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

The flight is the simple part. What you do once you are in Chiang Mai is somebody else's catalogue.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Chiang Mai and across Thailand

Day trips that leave Chiang Mai in the morning and cover a good part of Thailand by evening.

Partner links. We do not sell tours or tickets. We earn a commission on a booking, and it never changes the price.

The two ends, compared

Beijing reaches 255 places in 59 countries on services we hold, over distances from 58 to 11,757 km. Chiang Mai reaches 42 places in 11 countries, from 77 to 4,920 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Beijing

  • 255Places you can leave for
  • 59Countries
  • 82Operators

Arriving in Chiang Mai

Leaving Chiang Mai

  • 42Places you can leave for
  • 11Countries
  • 28Operators

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