The sector is held by IndiGo.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CAN Guangzhou to DEL Delhi
Guangzhou Baiyun, China, to Indira Gandhi International, India. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 3,650 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 54m
- Door to door
- 11h 39m
What CAN to DEL looks like
The CAN to DEL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Guangzhou CAN to Delhi DEL is a long haul sector of 3,650 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,650 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 54m.
Guangzhou CAN is a major hub in the network held here, 198 scheduled destinations and 823.8 departures a day. Delhi DEL has 133 destinations and 607.8 departures a day.
Delhi is 2.5 hours behind of Guangzhou all year.
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 DEL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN to DEL | 1.14 | 8 | IndiGo |
| DEL to CAN | 1.14 | 8 | IndiGo |
One carrier holds the sector, IndiGo, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 16 departures a week on CAN to DEL, 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 54m block time on CAN to DEL. 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 DEL in the air, estimated | 294 min | 9h 24m |
| Formalities at DEL | 90 min | 10h 54m |
| Delivery run in Delhi | 45 min | 11h 39m |
| Door to door | 699 min | 11h 39m |
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 DEL is 11h 39m.
A courier who leaves Guangzhou at 09:00 local is on the ground in Delhi at about 11:24 local and at the door by 13:39 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Delhi, the last useful departure from Guangzhou is around 13:21 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. 41 of them join CAN to DEL.
| Connecting at | CAN to hub, flights a day | Hub to DEL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanoi HAN | 7.86 | 3.29 | 3,808 | 6h 39m |
| Kathmandu KTM | 1.86 | 12 | 3,652 | 6h 39m |
| Dhaka DAC | 3.71 | 2.29 | 3,756 | 6h 48m |
| Kolkata CCU | 1.14 | 20.09 | 3,854 | 6h 56m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 3.43 | 3.43 | 3,882 | 6h 58m |
| Bangkok DMK | 1.43 | 0.71 | 4,622 | 7h 54m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at CAN in the afternoon actually flies on.
41 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Hanoi HAN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.3 times a day.
Through HAN the routing covers 3,808 km against the 3,650 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 39m 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, Kathmandu KTM at 6h 39m and Dhaka DAC at 6h 48m 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.
Plan Guangzhou to Delhi 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 DEL 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 DEL airport entry
- Hand carry into China
- Hand carry into India
- The written lane, Dubai to Guangzhou
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Delhi
- The written lane, Delhi to Abu Dhabi
- The route calculator
More pairs through CAN and DEL: 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.