The sector is held by 9 Air Co, Air China, Beijing Capital Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines and Hainan Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CAN Guangzhou to HGH Hangzhou
Guangzhou Baiyun, China, to Hangzhou Xiaoshan, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 37.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,038 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 50m
- Door to door
- 8h 35m
What CAN to HGH looks like
The CAN to HGH sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Guangzhou CAN to Hangzhou HGH is a short sector of 1,038 km by great circle, flown nonstop 37.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,038 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 50m.
Guangzhou CAN is a major hub in the network held here, 198 scheduled destinations and 823.8 departures a day. Hangzhou HGH has 117 destinations and 460.5 departures a day.
Guangzhou and Hangzhou 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 HGH from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN to HGH | 37.86 | 265 | 9 Air Co, Air China, Beijing Capital Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines |
| HGH to CAN | 37.29 | 261 | 9 Air Co, Air China, Beijing Capital Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines |
6 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 37.9 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 526.1 departures a week on CAN to HGH, 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 1h 50m block time on CAN to HGH. 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 HGH in the air, estimated | 110 min | 6h 20m |
| Formalities at HGH | 90 min | 7h 50m |
| Delivery run in Hangzhou | 45 min | 8h 35m |
| Door to door | 515 min | 8h 35m |
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 HGH is 8h 35m.
A courier who leaves Guangzhou at 09:00 local is on the ground in Hangzhou at about 10:50 local and at the door by 13:05 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Hangzhou, the last useful departure from Guangzhou is around 13:55 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. 39 of them join CAN to HGH.
| Connecting at | CAN to hub, flights a day | Hub to HGH, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xiamen XMN | 6 | 8 | 1,179 | 3h 44m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 3.43 | 8 | 1,230 | 3h 51m |
| Changsha CSX | 3.71 | 1 | 1,269 | 4h 07m |
| Taipei TPE | 0.86 | 1.86 | 1,404 | 4h 09m |
| Wuhan WUH | 11.43 | 4.57 | 1,427 | 4h 11m |
| Shanghai PVG | 10.29 | 1.29 | 1,369 | 4h 17m |
With 37.9 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.
39 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Xiamen XMN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a day.
Through XMN the routing covers 1,179 km against the 1,038 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 44m 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 54m 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 3h 51m and Changsha CSX at 4h 07m 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.
If nothing suitable leaves Hangzhou, Shanghai SHA is 138 km away by great circle and carries 60 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Guangzhou to Hangzhou 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 HGH 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 HGH airport entry
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Guangzhou
- The route calculator
More pairs through CAN and HGH: 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.