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

Kunming to Chiang Mai

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Kunming to Chiang Mai. From €74.48, fastest 4h 37m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Kunming to Chiang Mai runs about 1 times a day, with the first departure around 06:33 and the last around 06:33. One passenger pays €74.48, every fee included. The fastest door to door is 4h 37m over 818 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked 15 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at €74.48, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares

€74.48

  • 129%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Kunming

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.

  • 06:33First departure
  • 06:33Last departure
  • 1Services per day
  • 100%Run direct

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about €162.39Wed16
  2. about €233.78Thu17
  3. about €160.62Fri18
  4. about €180.09Sat19
  5. about €148.23Sun20
  6. about €148.82Mon21
  7. about €88.64Tue22
  8. about €92.77Wed23
  9. about €129.35Thu24
  10. about €145.28Fri25
  11. about €121.09Sat26
  12. about €110.47Sun27
  13. about €84.51Mon28
  14. about €74.48Tue29
  15. about €105.16Wed30
  16. about €101.03Thu1
  17. about €101.62Fri2
  18. about €82.74Sat3
  19. about €96.90Sun4
  20. about €88.64Mon5
  21. about €83.33Tue6

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 Kunming to Chiang Mai

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

  1. €87.4690 days
  2. €70.9460 days
  3. €86.8745 days
  4. €89.2330 days
  5. €83.3321 days
  6. €74.4814 days
  7. €88.647 days
  8. €160.623 days
  9. €162.391 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €70.94.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 129 percent. The dearest point is €162.39, 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.
€162.39€70.941371421304560

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

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Kunming 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

818 km

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

Who lives at each end

5,950,578127,240

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

How we know

Observed

Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.

The route

KunmingKunmingChiang MaiChiang Mai
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.

How far it really runs
The route covers 818 km against 794 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.

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.

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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.

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Questions about Kunming 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 Kunming to Chiang Mai?

The fastest journey from Kunming to Chiang Mai takes 4h 37m door to door, of which 1h 27m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 4h 41m, 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 Kunming to Chiang Mai?

The cheapest fare from Kunming to Chiang Mai is €74.48, as of 15 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €105.16. 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 Kunming to Chiang Mai?

The cheapest way from Kunming to Chiang Mai is by flight, at €74.48 for one passenger on 29 September 2026. That journey takes 4h 37m 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 Kunming to Chiang Mai?

Fares from Kunming to Chiang Mai bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €70.94. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 129 percent, measured on 15 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

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

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Kunming to Chiang Mai, at €83.33. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 15 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Kunming to Chiang Mai?

February is the cheapest of the next 5 months to travel from Kunming to Chiang Mai, at €58.55 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 Kunming to Chiang Mai?

1 operators sell services from Kunming to Chiang Mai across 1 mode: China Eastern Airlines. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.

Is there a direct service from Kunming to Chiang Mai?

Every service we sell from Kunming to Chiang Mai is direct, with around 1 departure a day and a fastest journey of 4h 37m door to door. No connection is needed, so there is no missed connection risk to plan around on this corridor.

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

Services from Kunming to Chiang Mai by flight leave from Kunming KMG 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 Kunming to Chiang Mai?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Kunming 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.

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

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 Kunming to Chiang Mai on 15 September 2026: 818 km of route against 794 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €74.48, and 4h 37m 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.

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The two ends, compared

Kunming reaches 110 places in 17 countries on services we hold, over distances from 67 to 4,750 km. Chiang Mai reaches 42 places in 11 countries, from 77 to 4,920 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Kunming

  • 110Places you can leave for
  • 17Countries
  • 38Operators

Arriving in Chiang Mai

Leaving Chiang Mai

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

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