Guangzhou to Addis Ababa

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Guangzhou to Addis Ababa. From €627.31, fastest 13h 58m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Guangzhou to Addis Ababa runs about 6 times a day, with the first departure around 06:46 and the last around 14:04. One passenger pays €627.31, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 13h 58m over 8,279 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked 16 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €627.31, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares · Priced for 5 October 2026

€627.31

  • 216%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Guangzhou

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.

  • 06:46First departure
  • 14:04Last departure
  • 6Services per day
  • 33%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €1,841.53Thu17
  2. about €1,525.29Fri18
  3. about €1,544.76Sat19
  4. about €1,238.55Sun20
  5. about €1,042.08Mon21
  6. about €1,011.40Tue22
  7. about €1,111.70Wed23
  8. about €1,199.02Thu24
  9. about €1,026.74Fri25
  10. about €1,032.64Sat26
  11. about €918.77Sun27
  12. about €783.07Mon28
  13. about €953.58Tue29
  14. about €813.16Wed30
  15. about €989.57Thu1
  16. about €863.90Fri2
  17. about €850.92Sat3
  18. about €765.96Sun4
  19. about €627.31Mon5
  20. about €638.52Tue6
  21. about €703.42Wed7

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 Addis Ababa. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Addis Ababa for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Addis Abeba train 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 Guangzhou to Addis Ababa

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

  1. €699.8890 days
  2. €581.8860 days
  3. €685.7245 days
  4. €676.2830 days
  5. €703.4221 days
  6. €813.1614 days
  7. €1,111.707 days
  8. €1,544.763 days
  9. €1,841.531 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €581.88.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 216 percent. The dearest point is €1,841.53, 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.
€1,841.53€581.88137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Guangzhou to Addis Ababa and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

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

The shape of it

8,279 km

8,038 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services take. The bearing runs west.

Who lives at each end

18,676,6053,860,000

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

GuangzhouGuangzhouAddis AbabaAddis Ababa
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
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 8,279 km against 8,038 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 Hong Kong, Dhaka, Hyderabad, Delhi. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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.

Addis Ababa is large, and the road in from ADD can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Addis Ababa

Settled in advance, so the ride into Addis Ababa 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 Addis Abeba train station

Most of the points near Addis Abeba train station open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Questions about Guangzhou to Addis Ababa

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 Guangzhou to Addis Ababa?

The fastest journey from Guangzhou to Addis Ababa takes 13h 58m door to door, of which 11h 44m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 14h 45m, 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 Guangzhou to Addis Ababa?

The cheapest fare from Guangzhou to Addis Ababa is €627.31, as of 16 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €1,072.76. 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 Guangzhou to Addis Ababa?

The cheapest way from Guangzhou to Addis Ababa is by flight, at €627.31 for one passenger on 5 October 2026. That journey takes 14h 54m 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 Guangzhou to Addis Ababa?

Fares from Guangzhou to Addis Ababa bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €581.88. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 216 percent, measured on 16 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Guangzhou to Addis Ababa?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Guangzhou to Addis Ababa, at €783.07. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 16 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Guangzhou to Addis Ababa?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Guangzhou to Addis Ababa, at €533.50 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 Guangzhou to Addis Ababa?

No operator record names Guangzhou to Addis Ababa directly. Ethiopian Airlines 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 Guangzhou to Addis Ababa?

33 percent of the services we sell from Guangzhou to Addis Ababa are direct. The rest connect at Hong Kong, Dhaka, Hyderabad, Delhi, with about 49 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 Guangzhou to Addis Ababa use?

Services from Guangzhou to Addis Ababa by flight leave from Guangzhou CAN and arrive at Addis Ababa ADD. 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 Guangzhou to Addis Ababa?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Guangzhou to Addis Ababa 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 Guangzhou to Addis Ababa on 16 September 2026: 8279 km of route against 8038 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €627.31, and 13h 58m 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 Addis Ababa is somebody else's catalogue.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Addis Ababa and across Ethiopia

Day trips that leave Addis Ababa in the morning and cover a good part of Ethiopia 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

Guangzhou reaches 205 places in 42 countries on services we hold, over distances from 44 to 12,878 km. Addis Ababa reaches 117 places in 67 countries, from 64 to 12,163 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Guangzhou

  • 205Places you can leave for
  • 42Countries
  • 68Operators

Arriving in Addis Ababa

Leaving Addis Ababa

  • 117Places you can leave for
  • 67Countries
  • 16Operators

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