The sector is held by China Southern Airlines and Nepal Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CAN Guangzhou to KTM Kathmandu
Guangzhou Baiyun, China, to Tribhuvan International, Nepal. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 2,837 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 07m
- Door to door
- 10h 52m
What CAN to KTM looks like
The CAN to KTM sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Guangzhou CAN to Kathmandu KTM is a medium haul sector of 2,837 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,837 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 07m.
Guangzhou CAN is a major hub in the network held here, 198 scheduled destinations and 823.8 departures a day. Kathmandu KTM has 35 destinations and 100.6 departures a day.
Guangzhou carries about 8.2 times the departures of Kathmandu, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Kathmandu is 2.2 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 KTM from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN to KTM | 1.86 | 13 | China Southern Airlines, Nepal Airlines |
| KTM to CAN | 2 | 14 | China Southern Airlines, Nepal Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, China Southern Airlines and Nepal Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 27 departures a week on CAN to KTM, 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 07m block time on CAN to KTM. 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 KTM in the air, estimated | 247 min | 8h 37m |
| Formalities at KTM | 90 min | 10h 07m |
| Delivery run in Kathmandu | 45 min | 10h 52m |
| Door to door | 652 min | 10h 52m |
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 KTM is 10h 52m.
A courier who leaves Guangzhou at 09:00 local is on the ground in Kathmandu at about 10:52 local and at the door by 13:07 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Kathmandu, the last useful departure from Guangzhou is around 13:53 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. 14 of them join CAN to KTM.
| Connecting at | CAN to hub, flights a day | Hub to KTM, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kunming KMG | 20.71 | 0.57 | 2,840 | 5h 53m |
| Dhaka DAC | 3.71 | 1.43 | 2,993 | 5h 57m |
| Chengdu TFU | 18.86 | 1.86 | 3,043 | 6h 08m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 3.43 | 1.29 | 3,068 | 6h 12m |
| Bangkok BKK | 13.71 | 2.57 | 3,936 | 7h 17m |
| Delhi DEL | 1.14 | 11.71 | 4,465 | 7h 41m |
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.
14 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kunming KMG, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through KMG the routing covers 2,840 km against the 2,837 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 53m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 46m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Dhaka DAC at 5h 57m and Chengdu TFU at 6h 08m 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 Kathmandu 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 KTM 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 KTM airport entry
- Hand carry into China
- Hand carry into Nepal
- The written lane, Dubai to Guangzhou
- The written lane, Sharjah to Kathmandu
- The route calculator
More pairs through CAN and KTM: 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.