The sector is held by China Southern Airlines and TransNusa.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CAN Guangzhou to DPS Bali
Guangzhou Baiyun, China, to Ngurah Rai International, Indonesia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a day
- Great circle
- 3,580 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 49m
- Door to door
- 11h 34m
What CAN to DPS looks like
The CAN to DPS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Guangzhou CAN to Bali DPS is a long haul sector of 3,580 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,580 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 49m.
Guangzhou CAN is a major hub in the network held here, 198 scheduled destinations and 823.8 departures a day. Bali DPS has 61 destinations and 211.1 departures a day.
Guangzhou carries about 3.9 times the departures of Bali, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Guangzhou and Bali keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
The pair sits inside Asia Pacific, a corridor where the site already publishes 16 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on CAN to DPS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN to DPS | 3 | 21 | China Southern Airlines, TransNusa |
| DPS to CAN | 3 | 21 | China Southern Airlines, TransNusa |
Two carriers hold the sector, China Southern Airlines and TransNusa, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 3 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 42 departures a week on CAN to DPS, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 4h 49m block time on CAN to DPS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to CAN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CAN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CAN to DPS in the air, estimated | 289 min | 9h 19m |
| Formalities at DPS | 90 min | 10h 49m |
| Delivery run in Bali | 45 min | 11h 34m |
| Door to door | 694 min | 11h 34m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for CAN to DPS is 11h 34m.
A courier who leaves Guangzhou at 09:00 local is on the ground in Bali at about 13:49 local and at the door by 16:04 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Bali, the last useful departure from Guangzhou is around 10:56 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 31 of them join CAN to DPS.
| Connecting at | CAN to hub, flights a day | Hub to DPS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surabaya SUB | 0.86 | 14.22 | 3,725 | 6h 34m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 3.43 | 3 | 3,592 | 6h 37m |
| Ho Chi Minh City SGN | 8 | 3.04 | 3,937 | 7h 02m |
| Manila MNL | 4.71 | 2.71 | 3,943 | 7h 02m |
| Xiamen XMN | 6 | 1.14 | 4,223 | 7h 14m |
| Hanoi HAN | 7.86 | 0.71 | 4,294 | 7h 14m |
With 3 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
31 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Surabaya SUB, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a week.
Through SUB the routing covers 3,725 km against the 3,580 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 34m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 45m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Hong Kong HKG at 6h 37m and Ho Chi Minh City SGN at 7h 02m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Guangzhou, Shenzhen SZX is 99 km away by great circle and carries 157 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Bali DPS, nyepi closure: The airport closes for 24 hours once a year for Nyepi, the Balinese day of silence, in March or April; the date moves with the Balinese calendar. No flights operate and nothing moves on the island.
Plan Guangzhou to Bali yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for CAN to DPS in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The CAN airport entry
- The DPS airport entry
- Hand carry into China
- Hand carry into Indonesia
- The written lane, Dubai to Guangzhou
- The written lane, Bali to Singapore
- The written lane, Bali to Sydney
- The route calculator
More pairs through CAN and DPS: Guangzhou to Seoul, Guangzhou to Singapore, Beijing to Guangzhou, Shanghai to Guangzhou, Guangzhou to London, Kuala Lumpur to Guangzhou, Bangkok to Guangzhou, Amsterdam to Guangzhou.