Changsha to Lijiang flight

Flights from Changsha to Lijiang start at €133.48 and take 5h 15m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Changsha to Lijiang starts at €133.48 and takes 5h 15m door to door, run by 2 operators over 1,303 km, with around 8 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 15mDoor to door
  • 2h 5mMoving
  • €133.48From
  • 320.5 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

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

Cheapest€113.42
  1. Juneyao Airlines JA955207:301h 20m08:50Changsha CSXGuiyang KWE
  2. China Southern Airlines CS758510:151h 21m11:36Guiyang KWELijiang LJG

Changes at Guiyang, with 85 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 7h 16mCO2 326.4 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€115.19
  1. Air Travel AT660514:442h 5m16:49Changsha CSXLijiang LJG

Door to door 5h 15mCO2 320.5 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.
OperatorFrom
Air Travel€114.01
Beijing Capital Airlines€118.14

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

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Lijiang Railway Station

Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Changsha to Lijiang

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

  1. €159.4490 days
  2. €82.1560 days
  3. €88.6445 days
  4. €106.9330 days
  5. €121.6821 days
  6. €162.9814 days
  7. €220.217 days
  8. €207.823 days
  9. €301.041 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €82.15.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 266 percent. The most expensive point is €301.04, 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. €168.88Sun
  2. €138.79Mon
  3. €133.48Tue
  4. €145.87Wed
  5. €193.66Thu
  6. €162.98Fri
  7. €169.47Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Changsha

Air
  • CSX

Lijiang

Air
  • LJG
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
50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,303 km against 1,265 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, Luzhou, Guiyang, Chongqing. The gap between arriving and leaving is 50 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.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Changsha at 06:02 and the last at 14:44, across 8 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Changsha to Lijiang

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 Changsha to Lijiang take?

The Flight from Changsha to Lijiang takes 5h 15m door to door, of which 2h 5m is spent moving. The route runs 1,303 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 Changsha to Lijiang cost?

The Flight from Changsha to Lijiang starts at €133.48 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €133.78. 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 Changsha to Lijiang?

2 operators run the Flight from Changsha to Lijiang: Air Travel, Beijing Capital Airlines. Between them they file around 8 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 Changsha to Lijiang use?

The Flight from Changsha to Lijiang leaves from Changsha CSX and arrives at Lijiang LJG. 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 Changsha to Lijiang?

Fares for the Flight from Changsha to Lijiang bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €82.15. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 266 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Changsha to Lijiang produce?

The Flight from Changsha to Lijiang produces about 320.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1303 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, 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 modeled 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 Changsha to Lijiang on September 11, 2026: 1303 km of route against 1265 km in a straight line, 8 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €133.48, and 5h 15m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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