Passengers
21,265
Guangzhou to Adelaide, 12 months to May 2026
Guangzhou to Adelaide
China · 49 months of data from Dec 2016 · Adelaide to Guangzhou
Both directions
41,510
including Adelaide to Guangzhou
Flight time
9h
scheduled, gate to gate
Load factor
86%
seats filled on this leg
Traffic: 12 months to May 2026
21,265 passengers flew Guangzhou to Adelaide in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 41,510 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 86% full, much the same in both directions.
The route
Distances are true from Adelaide; the ring marks the distance to Guangzhou.
How long is the flight?
Scheduled flight time from Guangzhou to Adelaide is 9h gate to gate, over 6,985 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 9h 5m.
Scheduled block time — gate to gate, not time in the air — taken from the current timetable for this leg. Long-haul flights are often timetabled differently in each direction because of winds aloft, so the return is not always the same length. Check your own booking for the flight you are taking.
Flight numbers on this route
1 flight number currently scheduled from Guangzhou to Adelaide. These are the numbers you book under.
Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon and Thu (2 departures).
China Southern · 1 · Boeing 787-9
CZ663
Current timetable as at 2026-09-06
Timetables change, and these carry no punctuality figures of their own — no on-time data is published for international flights at all. The passenger and load factor figures above cover the route, not any single flight number.
Passengers, 2016 to 2026
To May 2026 · Marks show industry events
How full were the flights?
Inbound load factor. Every flight on this pair served no other city pair, so the seat count is unambiguous and these figures are exact. Seat data begins in 2009, so this series is shorter than the passenger chart above.
Load factor: seats data from 2009
When is this route busiest?
Average passengers by calendar month over the last ten years, relative to the annual average.
Freight
Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.
To May 2026
The route in numbers
| Busiest month on record | 12,453 · Jan 2019 |
| Data coverage | Dec 2016 – May 2026 (49 months) |
| Freight, 12 months to May 2026 | 1,303 tonnes |
| Destination region | China |
No punctuality data is published for international services, so there are no cancellation or on-time figures on this page. That series covers domestic routes only.