The sector is held by 9 Air Co, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Juneyao Airlines and Shandong Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CAN Guangzhou to NKG Nanjing
Guangzhou Baiyun, China, to Nanjing Lukou, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 26.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,078 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 53m
- Door to door
- 8h 38m
What CAN to NKG looks like
The CAN to NKG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Guangzhou CAN to Nanjing NKG is a short sector of 1,078 km by great circle, flown nonstop 26.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,078 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 53m.
Guangzhou CAN is a major hub in the network held here, 198 scheduled destinations and 823.8 departures a day. Nanjing NKG has 85 destinations and 360.8 departures a day.
Guangzhou and Nanjing 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 NKG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN to NKG | 26.14 | 183 | 9 Air Co, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, Shandong Airlines |
| NKG to CAN | 24.71 | 173 | 9 Air Co, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines |
7 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 26.1 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 355.9 departures a week on CAN to NKG, 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 53m block time on CAN to NKG. 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 NKG in the air, estimated | 113 min | 6h 23m |
| Formalities at NKG | 90 min | 7h 53m |
| Delivery run in Nanjing | 45 min | 8h 38m |
| Door to door | 518 min | 8h 38m |
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 NKG is 8h 38m.
A courier who leaves Guangzhou at 09:00 local is on the ground in Nanjing at about 10:53 local and at the door by 13:08 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Nanjing, the last useful departure from Guangzhou is around 13:52 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 NKG.
| Connecting at | CAN to hub, flights a day | Hub to NKG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xiamen XMN | 6 | 9.86 | 1,311 | 3h 47m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 3.43 | 4.14 | 1,293 | 3h 56m |
| Fuzhou FOC | 6.43 | 4.57 | 1,352 | 3h 59m |
| Changsha CSX | 3.71 | 5.71 | 1,205 | 4h 01m |
| Shanghai PVG | 10.29 | 2.43 | 1,490 | 4h 27m |
| Taipei TPE | 0.86 | 1.29 | 1,602 | 4h 27m |
With 26.1 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 Xiamen XMN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a day.
Through XMN the routing covers 1,311 km against the 1,078 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 47m 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 56m and Fuzhou FOC at 3h 59m 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 Nanjing, Hangzhou HGH is 225 km away by great circle and carries 117 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Guangzhou to Nanjing 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 NKG 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 NKG airport entry
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Guangzhou
- The route calculator
More pairs through CAN and NKG: 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.