Route · URC → HTN
Flights from Urumqi to Hotan
Connecting Xinjiang's regional capital to the ancient Silk Road oasis of Hotan, this roughly 1,000 km hop takes around one hour and forty minutes in the air and serves as the primary air link for a city whose road alternatives stretch across several hours of desert highway. Air China, China Southern, and Shanghai Airlines all maintain a presence on the route, typically operating narrowbody jets such as the Boeing 737 or Airbus A320 family given the stage length and demand profile. Practically speaking, travelers should note that despite Hotan's remote location, all of Xinjiang officially operates on Beijing time, meaning local solar time runs significantly behind the clock — early-morning departures from Urumqi can feel deceptively dark. Fares tend to soften during the shoulder periods of late autumn and early spring, and midweek flights often carry lighter loads than weekend services, which attract both regional business travelers and tourists bound for Hotan's famous jade markets.
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Cheapest dates to fly
Live prices · powered by AviasalesThe calendar below pulls live fares from our search partner for Urumqi (URC) → Hotan (HTN). Use the year view… to spot the cheapest week to fly, the day-of-week patterns most travellers miss, and any shoulder-season dips worth shifting your trip around. Prices refresh every few hours, so what you see is what your booking page should look like a moment later — click any date to jump straight to the fare on Aviasales.
Airlines on this route
3 carriersThe 3 carriers we currently track on the Urumqi–Hotan route, from full-service flag carriers to low-cost competitors. Tap any airline for its full profile, baggage… rules, fleet context, and a live fare search pre-filtered to that carrier — useful if you're loyal to a frequent-flyer programme, want to compare onboard product on the same dates, or are weighing a cheaper one-stop against a pricier nonstop.
Flights from Urumqi to Hotan
Live schedule · powered by AviasalesBelow is the published weekly schedule for nonstop and one-stop services from Urumqi to Hotan — the actual flight numbers, departure and arrival times your… booking page will pull from. Use it to plan around departure preferences (early morning vs late evening), see which carriers fly on which weekdays, or pick a connection that lets you sleep in your own bed before a long-haul leg. Click any row to load it directly in the search.
Airport guides
Quick links into the airport profiles at both ends of the route. Each guide covers terminal layout, the airlines that base hubs at URC and… HTN, the other routes those airports serve, and the ground-transit options most travellers wish they'd read about before landing — the practical context you only really need to know once you've booked, but want to skim before you do.