The sector is held by China Southern Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CDG Paris to CAN Guangzhou
Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, to Guangzhou Baiyun, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 9,456 km
- Block, estimated
- 11h 53m
- Door to door
- 18h 38m
What CDG to CAN looks like
The CDG to CAN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Paris CDG to Guangzhou CAN is an ultra long sector of 9,456 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 9,456 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 11h 53m.
Paris CDG is a major hub in the network held here, 277 scheduled destinations and 771.4 departures a day. Guangzhou CAN has 198 destinations and 823.8 departures a day.
Guangzhou runs 7 hours ahead of Paris in January and 6 hours ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Asia Pacific and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 46 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on CDG to CAN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDG to CAN | 1.14 | 8 | China Southern Airlines |
| CAN to CDG | 1.14 | 8 | 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.
Between them the two directions put about 16 departures a week on CDG 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 11h 53m block time on CDG 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 CDG | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CDG before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CDG to CAN in the air, estimated | 713 min | 16h 23m |
| Formalities at CAN | 90 min | 17h 53m |
| Delivery run in Guangzhou | 45 min | 18h 38m |
| Door to door | 1,118 min | 18h 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 CDG to CAN is 18h 38m.
A courier who leaves Paris at 09:00 local is on the ground in Guangzhou at about 03:53 local and at the door by 06:08 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Guangzhou, nothing leaving Paris 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 18h 38m 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. 49 of them join CDG to CAN.
| Connecting at | CDG to hub, flights a day | Hub to CAN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Budapest BUD | 4.71 | 0.57 | 9,654 | 13h 59m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 3.43 | 3.43 | 9,726 | 14h 00m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 14.57 | 1.14 | 9,469 | 14h 01m |
| Hanoi HAN | 1.14 | 8.29 | 9,966 | 14h 04m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 12.43 | 1.43 | 9,538 | 14h 06m |
| Belgrade BEG | 2.29 | 0.57 | 9,848 | 14h 13m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at CDG in the afternoon actually flies on.
49 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Budapest BUD, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through BUD the routing covers 9,654 km against the 9,456 km nonstop track and takes about 13h 59m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 06m 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 14h 00m and Frankfurt FRA at 14h 01m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Paris, Paris ORY is 35 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 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.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Paris CDG is shut to scheduled movements between 00:00 and 05:00 local, so a collection in Paris that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Guangzhou.
Paris CDG, night restrictions: Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through CDG or CAN. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Safran, Villaroche and CorbeilEngine assembly and test for the CFM programmes. The most produced engine family in the world generates the most spare movements. Logistics through Paris CDG.
- Renault, Flins and DouaiAssembly and electric vehicle production. Paris is both the plant region and the intercontinental gate. Logistics through Paris CDG.
- Sanofi, Frankfurt Hoechst and ParisInsulin production and research. One company, two countries, one supply chain. Logistics through Paris CDG.
Plan Paris 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 CDG 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.
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