Route brief · AMS → SHA
Amsterdam → Shanghai
$577
−13% vs typical
seasonal median $665 · difference $88
Nov 18 – Nov 25 · 7 nights
China Southern1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $655–$719
- Board rank
- Stronger than 31%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSHAShanghaiThe Bund on one bank, a science-fiction skyline on the other — and a visa-free transit window worth checking.Best windowMar–May · Sep–NovAirportsPudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)All routes into ShanghaiWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Nov is the cheapest for AMS → SHA. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in November around $577 and peak in July near $875 — a $298 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 14 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under China Southern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $577 for 8,874 km each way, that works out to about $33 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 23 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 10th — 20% above the $482 from Istanbul. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 37 routes of similar length we watch out of Amsterdam.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Nov 18 · $577 (17% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $792 then versus $675 now, across 6 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $577, on Nov 18.
Cheapest in Nov · around $577
13% below the $665 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Amsterdam → Shanghai · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Schiphol (AMS) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~14 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,874 km each way
- Typical price
- $665 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Southern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
AMS → SHA, answered.
Is $577 a good price for Amsterdam to Shanghai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $665 round-trip and this fare is 13% under it, about $88. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Amsterdam to Shanghai?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Shanghai are Mar–May · Sep–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book AMS → Shanghai?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 9 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Amsterdam to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Southern. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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