Route brief · ATH → SHA
Athens → Shanghai
$633
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 21 – Nov 1 · 11 nights
Etihad1 stop
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.
Best time to be in Shanghai: Mar–May · Sep–Nov. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 11-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $633 for 8,540 km each way, that works out to about $37 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 24 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 18th — 31% above the $482 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 27 routes of similar length we watch out of Athens, where the middle fare is $825. We have 3 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $802 then versus $743 now, across 5 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 $593, on Oct 14.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 12 of 101 days priced, from 20 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Route facts
- Airports
- Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,540 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
ATH → SHA, answered.
How far in advance should I book ATH → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Athens to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Etihad. 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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