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Cheap Flights to China

Cheapest return prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Guangzhou
Guangzhou1 stop$1,252
Shanghai
Shanghai2 stops$1,043
Beijing
Beijing1 stop$1,334
Shenzhen
Shenzhen1 stop$943
Fuzhou
Fuzhou2 stops$1,497
Chengdu
Chengdu1 stop$1,196
Nanjing
Nanjing2 stops$1,193
Kunming
Kunming2 stops$1,080
Zhengzhou
Zhengzhou2 stops$2,499
Harbin
Harbin1 stop$1,615
Shenyang
Shenyang2 stops$1,251
Hangzhou
Hangzhou2 stops$1,211
Xiamen
Xiamen1 stop$1,193
Xi'an
Xi'an2 stops$2,525
Chongqing
Chongqing1 stop$1,390
Haikou
Haikou2 stops$2,304
Guangzhou
Guangzhou1 stop$1,252
Shanghai
Shanghai2 stops$1,043
Beijing
Beijing1 stop$1,334
Shenzhen
Shenzhen1 stop$943
Fuzhou
Fuzhou2 stops$1,497
Chengdu
Chengdu1 stop$1,196
Nanjing
Nanjing2 stops$1,193
Kunming
Kunming2 stops$1,080
Zhengzhou
Zhengzhou2 stops$2,499
Harbin
Harbin1 stop$1,615
Shenyang
Shenyang2 stops$1,251
Hangzhou
Hangzhou2 stops$1,211
Xiamen
Xiamen1 stop$1,193
Xi'an
Xi'an2 stops$2,525
Chongqing
Chongqing1 stop$1,390
Haikou
Haikou2 stops$2,304

Book Cheap China Plane Tickets

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for return flights to China that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent return flight deals to China

Sun, 25 Oct - Sat, 21 Nov
China Eastern Logo
22:00 - 11:40AKL  Auckland Intl-SZX Shenzhen
18h 40m1 stop Shanghai Pu Dong
China Eastern Logo
19:10 - 16:35SZX  Shenzhen-AKL Auckland Intl
16h 25m1 stop Shanghai Pu Dong
$943China Eastern
Mon, 26 Oct - Thu, 19 Nov
China Eastern Logo
22:00 - 11:40AKL  Auckland Intl-SZX Shenzhen
18h 40m1 stop Shanghai Pu Dong
China Eastern Logo
19:10 - 16:35SZX  Shenzhen-AKL Auckland Intl
16h 25m1 stop Shanghai Pu Dong
$943China Eastern
Fri, 6 Nov - Fri, 13 Nov
Air China Logo
20:30 - 21:40AKL  Auckland Intl-CTU Chengdu
30h 10m1 stop Beijing Capital
Air China Logo
18:30 - 17:25CTU  Chengdu-AKL Auckland Intl
17h 55m1 stop Beijing Capital
$1,196Air China
Mon, 2 Nov - Mon, 30 Nov
Air China Logo
23:55 - 15:15AKL  Auckland Intl-SZX Shenzhen
20h 20m1 stop Shanghai Pu Dong
Air China Logo
14:10 - 06:45SZX  Shenzhen-AKL Auckland Intl
35h 35m1 stop Shanghai Hongqiao Intl
$1,205Air China
Thu, 3 Sep - Wed, 9 Sep
Cathay Pacific Logo
13:25 - 02:20AKL  Auckland Intl-CAN Guangzhou Baiyun
16h 55m1 stop Hong Kong Intl
Cathay Pacific Logo
05:00 - 11:50CAN  Guangzhou Baiyun-AKL Auckland Intl
26h 50m1 stop Hong Kong Intl
$1,278Cathay Pacific
Mon, 7 Sep - Wed, 9 Sep
Cathay Pacific Logo
13:25 - 08:55AKL  Auckland Intl-CAN Guangzhou Baiyun
23h 30m1 stop Hong Kong Intl
Cathay Pacific Logo
10:10 - 11:50CAN  Guangzhou Baiyun-AKL Auckland Intl
21h 40m1 stop Hong Kong Intl
$1,291Cathay Pacific
Mon, 7 Sep - Mon, 14 Sep
Multiple Airlines Logo
13:25 - 08:55AKL  Auckland Intl-CAN Guangzhou Baiyun
23h 30m1 stop Hong Kong Intl
Multiple Airlines Logo
10:10 - 19:10CAN  Guangzhou Baiyun-AKL Auckland Intl
29h 00m2 stops Hong Kong Intl Melbourne
$1,308Multiple Airlines
Mon, 12 Oct - Wed, 28 Oct
Hainan Airlines Logo
21:00 - 19:15AKL  Auckland Intl-PEK Beijing Capital
27h 15m1 stop Shenzhen
Hainan Airlines Logo
18:55 - 18:40PEK  Beijing Capital-AKL Auckland Intl
42h 45m2 stops Chongqing Jiangbei Intl Haikou Meilan Intl
$1,334Hainan Airlines
Sun, 1 Nov - Thu, 19 Nov
Hainan Airlines Logo
22:20 - 10:30AKL  Auckland Intl-PVG Shanghai Pu Dong
17h 10m1 stop Haikou Meilan Intl
Hainan Airlines Logo
11:35 - 18:40PVG  Shanghai Pu Dong-AKL Auckland Intl
26h 05m1 stop Haikou Meilan Intl
$1,337Hainan Airlines
Sun, 1 Nov - Sun, 22 Nov
Multiple Airlines Logo
06:10 - 08:55AKL  Auckland Intl-CAN Guangzhou Baiyun
31h 45m2 stops Melbourne Hong Kong Intl
Multiple Airlines Logo
10:15 - 13:25CAN  Guangzhou Baiyun-AKL Auckland Intl
22h 10m1 stop Hong Kong Intl
$1,349Multiple Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for flights to China

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights to China to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest flight to China?

These are the best return prices found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 5 days.

The cheapest ticket to China from New Zealand found in the last 5 days was to Chongqing, at $967 return. The most popular route is Auckland (AKL) to Guangzhou (CAN) and the cheapest return ticket found on this route in the last 5 days was $1,178.

How much is a flight to China?

The average and cheapest price for all round-trip flights to China from each origin found by users searching on KAYAK in the last month.

A flight to China costs $1,202 on average. The cheapest price found on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks was $461 for the route Auckland (AKL) to Guangzhou (CAN). The most popular routes on KAYAK are Auckland to Guangzhou which costs $1,562 on average, and Christchurch to Guangzhou, which costs $1,823 on average.

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What is the cheapest month to fly from New Zealand to China?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from New Zealand to China, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from New Zealand to China is February, when tickets cost $631 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and April, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $1,043 and $846 respectively.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to China?

The average price for all round-trip flights from New Zealand to China depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

The cheapest time of day to fly to China is generally at night, when retur flights cost $1,573 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to China is generally in the afternoon, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $2,119.

How far in advance should I book a flight from New Zealand to China?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights to China, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below-average price on a flight from New Zealand to China, you should book around 3 weeks before departure, which saves you about 15% compared to booking last-minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 20 weeks before departure.

Which is the cheapest airport to fly into in China?

Prices will differ depending on the departure airport, but generally, the cheapest airport to fly to in China is Chongqing Jiangbei Intl Airport (CKG), with an average flight price of $596.

Good to know

Low season

May

Cheapest flight

$578
Best time to beat the crowds (14% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly (32% more expensive on average)
Flight from Auckland to Shanghai Hongqiao Intl

FAQs - booking China flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from New Zealand to China?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from New Zealand to China.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from New Zealand to China?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from New Zealand to China is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from New Zealand to China?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional return ticket. You could then fly from New Zealand to China with an airline and back with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from New Zealand to China?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying from New Zealand to China up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • What is the cheapest day to fly to China?

    Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to China is Sunday when return tickets can be as cheap as $1,574. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Saturday, when return prices are $1,731 on average.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to China

  • Looking for cheap airfare to China? 25% of our users found return tickets to China for the following prices or less: From Christchurch $1,138, from Auckland $2,666
  • Enter your preferred departure airport and travel dates into the search form above to unlock the latest China flight deals.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying to China

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from New Zealand to China? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
8.3
Hainan AirlinesOverall score based on 68 reviews
8.2Comfort
8.9Crew
7.7Entertainment
8.3Food
8.5Boarding
Airline reviews

Best domestic flight I’ve been on for a very long time. Way better than any of the Australian carriers for domestic flights!!

10.0 ExcellentAmy, Jul 2026
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Best domestic flight I’ve been on for a very long time. Way better than any of the Australian carriers for domestic flights!!

The seats and service exceeded expectation for the price I paid for.

My first time flying Hainan Airlines. Boarding process was easy and quick. Staff was friendly and helpful. Food was a simple, hot meal which we don’t see much any more on short flights in the US. Only water, coffee or tea to drink but it was only a two hour flight. Overall pleasing experience.

Great although I believe they are able to redistuibute the passangers in a more comfortable way if the flight is not full dor such long flights. Unless the seats are paid for, of coruse.

Good flight, on time. The aircraft was old and the seats lost their shapes. Food was just acceptable.

Two hours delayed departure ! Lost one of our luggage! Two days later found the luggage, again waiting for more than two hours to get the lost luggage because locked at other airline office.

Hainan Airlines was amongst the best. It's sad to see her becoming just mediocre. I recommended her as outstanding. I won't recommend her again.

Such amazing service! Wonderful flight attendants who actually care about the passengers and go out of their way to make our journey easier!!

They asked how much cash i have . I said no cash they said bring cash from atm . Why they even care about my cash.

Flight was scheduled to depart at 1210 hrs. It was delayed 1 hour 20 minutes (maybe for air traffic control reasons). The seats were worn out and very uncomfortable. Lunch was typical for airline. Flight free were friendly.

Everything was good; they still provided a sandwich snack. Good crew

The crew could have awaken me to eat dinner!! I was so waiting to order the braised duck breast and fell asleep b4 crew got to me to take order. When I awoke, lights were out and food had been served without me eating. I did love the apple juice!

The legroom in economy on an A321 is wholly inadequate for a 6’3” man. Deeply dissatisfied.

I do not think there was much that could have been done to make it better. The delayed flight was due to bad weather. The turbulent patches were very unavoidable. Am simply thankful that there were no sudden and / or sharp drops during the flight. I do extend my compliments to captain Marcus I believe was his name and the rest of the crew. They all did an excellent job. My only question is whether I get a refund since the seats I had chosen and paid for were reassigned.

The flight was just ok, but the vendor made it exceptio ally bard to manage my own reservation and would not give me access. The blocked all of the one time pins to come to their email address which caused me.to go through them eceryrime to get seats see rhe reservation and even get wheelchair access for my sick 71 year old uncle. They only xommunicates via a bot which gave me incorrect info. I thought this was Kayak and not underprivileged. They ruined his trip, did not get him aisle seats and made it impossible to purchase extra leg room. It was a horrible experience. He was taken to hospital on arrival only to find he had blood clots and pnemonia while trying to navigate the airport. This vendor is very irresponsible and the airline could not access his info.

Just want to do a little more clean up so does not smell like urine.

Cathay flight was fine, Amsterdam airport was a nightmare, spent way too much time walking to our next connection, no travelators.

It as great, my in flight entertainment was malfunctioning though.

The employees are very nice and good. The delay due to the aircraft is not a good thing. Planning for such problems should be an easy task.

Everything was good food could be better but ok for economy on my 2nd flight the head ph jack are bad you have to hold pushed in to hear anything but other then that very nice service

We were taking the flight MU 8649 from Shanghai to Osaka and the original boarding gate was 20 and we didn’t receive any notification or broadcast about gate changes, and by the time we missed the original boarding time we check thr electric board and realized the gate was changed to 208 Also the flight was delayed by almost an hour and the crew member didn’t provide any explanation, after we finally boarded the aircraft was very hot, the crew member told me the air conditioning was not working and tried to calm passages down by offering iced water, all of us sat in the aircraft for another 40 mins before it finally took off

Seats not comfortable. We had requested vegan meal and it wasn’t given.

I was denied boarding at the Brisbane airport and it seems like I won’t get any refunds from the airline

Wow very impressed by the quality and attentiveness of service of China Southern. Lived the blankets! Will definitely fly with them again. Despite language barriers, a few attendants know enough English to understand our rudimentary Mandarin and respond to basic questions. Although they don’t explain the beverage and meal service on the website or ticketing documents, they offered regular beverage cart and snacks during the beginning hours and end hours of the long, transoceanic flight. A full meal at the beginning and end of the flight as well, and a midflight small sandwich (dinner roll sized) but we weren’t hungry and didn’t try that one. The expectation is that every sleeps during the middle of the flight. We were on a “redeye” departure from LAX with a morning arrival in China, so I don’t know if this service pattern is the same for other flights. The domestic flight we took from Guangzhou to Harbin offered conventional refreshments and meals like a US flight service. Note that they didn’t offer diet sodas. If you like to stay hydrated, I recommend bringing plenty of your own. It is served in small cups like any other drink. You can ask for a bottle but they’re tiny - about 6 ounces.

China Southern was not the problem. I booked my flight through Kayak and also received a booking reference and alert details regarding departure time and gate numbers… however Kayak NEVER actually booked my flight! We were stranded at the airport without a flight for a long awaited holiday!

Terrible boarding experience,,food is very poor that I I . Never going book this airline again.

The crew were kind, patient and responsive. The service was excellent, even though we travelled the cheapest economy class. We arrived at our destination 40 min early, which for a 15+ hour flight is a great bonus. The boarding seemed a bit "loose", but got us boarded on time, and the plane was off exactly @ 0:30 hrs.

The airport didn‘t give me the ticket. I called customer service to ask for a refund but they kept giving me a perfunctory response and refused to refund me.

The flight was delayed hours and most flights from CS are always delayed. Plane was efficient and got us home but not the best food and no entertainment system at all.

The back of the chair - premium economy could not move back - not worth the price

Weren’t even given earphones to use the entertainment system

Overall, excellent: check-in, boarding, service, and food. The Business Class seating is a little less private and spacious than the world's premier airlines, but still very good for a long haul flight.

It's terrible that we can't do online check in because we didn't buy the tickets directly from Air china. It was not explained until I contacted Chatdeal and we could not sit together.

Food and service are good. Bathroom was lack of lotions and cleaning. That should be improved.

Food & service very good next I will pick up again

Everything was not satisfactory - the flight was delayed, staffs were ok but they didn't speak English well. I am from east Asia (not Chinese) and they didn't care enough to remember that I wasn't Chinese but persistently spoke chinese to me. The flight announcement in english wasn't clear to understand.

I wish I had been able to choose a vegetarian meal. Crew friendly and helpful. Seat was ok. All quite efficient and pleasant. Would recommend for inner China travel for sure.

The flight is not bad, but the Business Lounge is not big enough for the quantity of people they accept and there is a limited options for food and beverages.

It was simply bad and on top of that my luggage hasn't been delivered until now. They can't even localize it which is just unacceptable when they are supposed to scan the bar code they put when we check in

We bought premium Economy, thinking it would be more comfortable, but the seat is so narrow ,that my legs and feet are swollen , I can't wear shoes !

It was just fine. The sirlines did live up fully to my expectation.

While boarding at PVG, there was a ticket checking by the gate, then there was another ticket checking right at the bottom of the escalator, which created quite a dangerous congestion. Don't understand why the duplication?

I was traveling alone with an infant, so the crew was incredibly helpful. Both the international and subsequent domestic flights were impeccable.

The flight was delayed by 2 hours, although to their credit they delayed my connecting flight so people could reach it. Also their site is a nightmare to navigate on a phone. Everything else was good.

CTU-KMG-CNX with 1.5 hr connection at KMG. Doable but just barely bc immigration exit from China is at the last flight leg, here: KMG to CNX. We hauled out of the domestic terminal to reenter at the international departures (luggage checked thru to CNX thankfully). Immigration had only two agents, even though KMG gets a HUGE number of foreigners. It took forever for such a shot line. Then security also took a while, so I just just made the connection. Recommend if you exit China with domestic international transfer, plan for 2+ hrs to avoid a heart attack. Airline personnel don’t suffer if you miss the flight, you do. Plan accordingly.

China Eastern as a member of Sky Alliance airlines should have the same standards overall of their partners, Besides the seats comforts everything else is bellow the standard for a business class travelers.

2 parts to the journey. First leg covered in a newer plane with decent staff + POOR FOOD QUALITY but the second half didn’t leave a positive impression at all as the plane itself was an older built and the crew didn’t serve properly. Language is an issue with China Eastern flights as always, but unmotivated crew just makes it even bad.

Small plane with only two lavatories at the back. You must have a good plan to use it before or after the meal, if you make a bad decision, you will end up with standing in front of the toilet for a while till the food carts empty. The good thing is even there’s a slightly delayed, the plane is still arriving on time which is superb!!

good flight. food is only so so. I actually did not eat the snack. it does not look too good on the passenger next to me.

Couldn’t fly since they wouldn’t issue a boarding ticket. Something to do with not taking the departing flight since it was cancelled due to weather. No notice or anything about the trip being invalid. The app made it seem like I was all good for it. Never trusting travel agency

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