The sector is held by China Southern Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LAX Los Angeles to CAN Guangzhou
Los Angeles International, the United States, to Guangzhou Baiyun, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 11,618 km
- Block, estimated
- 14h 30m
- Door to door
- 21h 15m
What LAX to CAN looks like
The LAX to CAN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Los Angeles LAX to Guangzhou CAN is an ultra long sector of 11,618 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 11,618 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 14h 30m.
Los Angeles LAX is a major hub in the network held here, 212 scheduled destinations and 826.3 departures a day. Guangzhou CAN has 198 destinations and 823.8 departures a day.
Guangzhou runs 16 hours ahead of Los Angeles in January and 15 hours ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between the Americas and 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 LAX to CAN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAX to CAN | 1.71 | 12 | China Southern Airlines |
| CAN to LAX | 0.86 | 6 | China Southern Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, China Southern Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The two directions are not level: LAX to CAN runs about once a day, the return runs 6 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 18 departures a week on LAX to CAN, 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 14h 30m block time on LAX to CAN. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to LAX | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LAX before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LAX to CAN in the air, estimated | 870 min | 19h 00m |
| Formalities at CAN | 90 min | 20h 30m |
| Delivery run in Guangzhou | 45 min | 21h 15m |
| Door to door | 1,275 min | 21h 15m |
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 LAX to CAN is 21h 15m.
A courier who leaves Los Angeles at 09:00 local is on the ground in Guangzhou at about 15:30 local and at the door by 17:45 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Guangzhou, nothing leaving Los Angeles inside a normal working day arrives in time, so this pair is an overnight and a next morning delivery rather than a same day one.
At 21h 15m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.
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 LAX to CAN.
| Connecting at | LAX to hub, flights a day | Hub to CAN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osaka KIX | 1.43 | 1.43 | 11,676 | 16h 14m |
| Xiamen XMN | 0.71 | 6 | 11,695 | 16h 14m |
| Seoul ICN | 11.29 | 7.43 | 11,631 | 16h 25m |
| Taipei TPE | 7.57 | 2.86 | 11,748 | 16h 27m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 8 | 3.43 | 11,800 | 16h 30m |
| Tokyo HND | 7.14 | 4.57 | 11,697 | 16h 33m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at LAX in the afternoon actually flies on.
31 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Osaka KIX, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through KIX the routing covers 11,676 km against the 11,618 km nonstop track and takes about 16h 14m 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 44m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Xiamen XMN at 16h 14m and Seoul ICN at 16h 25m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Los Angeles, San Diego SAN is 176 km away by great circle and carries 123 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
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 Los Angeles to Guangzhou 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 LAX to CAN 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 LAX airport entry
- The CAN airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Los Angeles
- The written lane, Los Angeles to Sydney
- The written lane, Los Angeles to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through LAX and CAN: 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.