ExceptionalNonstop · 2.5h
ATH to WAWPoland
Warsaw
$48
usually $125
−62%
Most monthly lows $85–$133. Cheaper than every other month on record (6).
Flights · ATH → SHA
Athens to Shanghai
Best fare, round trip
$664
−12%
below its usual $755
you keep $91
Found
- Depart
- Wed 2 Dec
- Return
- Thu 10 Dec
- Stay
- 8 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 14.5h
- Airline
SWISS
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $705 and $756. The drop beats 29% of measured fares on the board, over 4 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
ChinaShanghaiThe 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)Every route into ShanghaiFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in December around $664 and peak in October near $786, 18% dearer, across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 14.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under SWISS, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $664 for 8,540 km each way, that works out to about $39 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 24 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 20th — 50% above the $444 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 25 routes of similar length we watch out of Athens, where the middle fare is $729. The best time to be in Shanghai: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on 8 Aug — $802 then versus $803 now, across 20 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 14 Oct.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 13 of 109 days priced, from 53 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
1Monday 2 November: $756. Compare fares from this day.34567891011121314151617Wednesday 18 November: $764. Compare fares from this day.192021222324252627282930
December 2026
1Wednesday 2 December: $664. Compare fares from this day.345678910111213141516Thursday 17 December: $675. Compare fares from this day.18192021Tuesday 22 December: $825. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 23 December: $803. Compare fares from this day.24252627Monday 28 December: $885. Compare fares from this day.29Wednesday 30 December: $921. Compare fares from this day.31
January 2027
1234567891011121314Friday 15 January: $756. Compare fares from this day.16171819202122232425262728293031
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Dec, around $664
12% below the $755 typical fare
$786Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$705Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$664Dec, the cheapest month. Compare December fares.$756Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualPress a month to compare its fares
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Athens to Shanghai, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ≈14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,540 km each way
- Typical price
- $755 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- SWISS
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
ATH → SHA, answered.
Is $664 a good price for Athens to Shanghai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $755 round-trip and this fare is 12% under it. 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 Athens to Shanghai?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Dec 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 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. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 4 months of cached fares, Dec comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Athens to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under SWISS. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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