Guangzhou - Post Report Question and Answers
What is your home city/country? How long is the trip to post from there, with what connections? How easy/difficult is it to travel to this city/country?
USA. 43 hours flight by USG charter from Washington DC. Normally 20 hours to west coast USA. Can fly direct via Hong Kong to LAX/SFO or fly via Seoul from Guangzhou. - Apr 2023
Washington DC. 15 Hour flight from Guangzhou to LAX, then another 5 to DC. In times of COVID, it is very very difficult to travel in/out of China. Pre-covid, flights were plentiful and lots of different itineraries were available. - Aug 2021
While there are direct flights with mainland China airlines to the US, if you have the time fly out of Hong Kong, or transit Japan. Especially for personal travel, these alternative routes are cheaper and the airlines are better quality than China's. - May 2019
About 18 hours with connections. There are some direct flights to the East Coast as well. Lots of flights all over Asia. - Nov 2018
Washington, DC, although we haven't gone back. There are too many good travel opportunities in the area. Every chance we get we pick one and go there instead. - Nov 2015
The East Coast of the U.S. - depending on the flights and connections, it usually winds up being an eighteen to twenty-hour trip. Connections are usually in Japan or on the West Coast of the U.S. (San Francisco or LA). - Aug 2014
California or Virginia. To California it is 11 hours. To Virginia, with connections through LA, 20+. - May 2013
Washington DC; usually a 4-hour flight to the West Coast; then another 11 hours or so to Tokyo; then 4 1/2 hours to Guangzhou. With layovers a typical trip is 20-22 hours. - Apr 2013
New York, 14 hours to Beijing. Then 2 - 3 from Beijing to Guangzhou. - Jan 2013
East Coast, US//Many options.1. Newark to Hong Kong (15 hours on Continental) then take a 2 hours train to Guangzhou2. DCA/IAD to LAX to Guangzhou (usually overnight on LAX, travel time is 20 hours)3. DCA/IAD to Beijing to Guangzhou (this is the city pair they will try to put you on, it is a United flight to Beijing and a Chinese carrier to Guangzhou, unsure of the time.) - Oct 2011
There's a direct flight from LAX that takes about 14-15 hours. Most connections go through Tokyo, Beijing, or Hong Kong. My home base is Washington (state). When we arrived we flew Seattle to San Francisco for a few days, then San Francisco to Shanghai and Shanghai to Guangzhou. SF-Shanghai was 12 hours and Shanghai-GZ was about 2 hours. - May 2011
