The sector is held by Air China, EVA Air and Xiamen Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TPE Taipei to HGH Hangzhou
Taoyuan International, Taiwan, to Hangzhou Xiaoshan, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 578 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 21m
- Door to door
- 8h 06m
What TPE to HGH looks like
The TPE to HGH sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Taipei TPE to Hangzhou HGH is a short sector of 578 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 578 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 21m.
Taipei TPE is a large airport in the network held here, 108 scheduled destinations and 382.9 departures a day. Hangzhou HGH has 117 destinations and 460.5 departures a day.
Taipei 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 TPE to HGH from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TPE to HGH | 1.86 | 13 | Air China, EVA Air, Xiamen Airlines |
| HGH to TPE | 1.86 | 13 | Air China, EVA Air, Xiamen Airlines |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 26 departures a week on TPE 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 21m block time on TPE 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 TPE | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At TPE before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| TPE to HGH in the air, estimated | 81 min | 5h 51m |
| Formalities at HGH | 90 min | 7h 21m |
| Delivery run in Hangzhou | 45 min | 8h 06m |
| Door to door | 486 min | 8h 06m |
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 TPE to HGH is 8h 06m.
A courier who leaves Taipei at 09:00 local is on the ground in Hangzhou at about 10:21 local and at the door by 12:36 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Hangzhou, the last useful departure from Taipei is around 14:24 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. 26 of them join TPE to HGH.
| Connecting at | TPE to hub, flights a day | Hub to HGH, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xiamen XMN | 2.29 | 8 | 991 | 3h 27m |
| Shanghai PVG | 11.29 | 1.29 | 843 | 3h 45m |
| Jeju CJU | 4.57 | 2.57 | 1,745 | 4h 22m |
| Macau MFM | 8.29 | 2.43 | 1,972 | 4h 31m |
| Shenzhen SZX | 4.29 | 33.43 | 1,873 | 4h 38m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 2.86 | 37.86 | 1,864 | 4h 38m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at TPE in the afternoon actually flies on.
26 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 about twice a day.
Through XMN the routing covers 991 km against the 578 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 27m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 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, Shanghai PVG at 3h 45m and Jeju CJU at 4h 22m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Taipei, Fuzhou FOC is 184 km away by great circle and carries 80 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.
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.
Taipei TPE, night operations: Operates around the clock.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through TPE or HGH. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- TSMC, HsinchuThe largest contract chip manufacturer in the world. European lithography, Taiwanese fabs, and a clock that runs in fab hours. Logistics through Taipei TPE.
Plan Taipei 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.
Restrictions
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 TPE 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.
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- Hand carry into China
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