Route brief · BKK → SHA
Bangkok → Shanghai
$187
−6% vs typical
seasonal median $200 · difference $13
Sep 20 – Sep 23 · 3 nights
China Southern1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $192–$261
- Board rank
- Stronger than 8%
- 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, Sep is the cheapest for BKK → SHA. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in September around $187 and peak in April near $409 — a $222 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 5.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under China Southern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $187 for 2,891 km each way, that works out to about $32 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. It is also the cheapest of the 8 routes of similar length we watch out of Bangkok.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Sep 20 · $187 (17% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 9% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $205 then versus $224 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 $184, on Sep 6.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $187
6% below the $200 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Bangkok → Shanghai · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Suvarnabhumi (BKK) · Don Mueang (DMK) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~5.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,891 km each way
- Typical price
- $200 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Southern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
BKK → SHA, answered.
Is $187 a good price for Bangkok to Shanghai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $200 round-trip and this fare is 6% under it, about $13. 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 Bangkok to Shanghai?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Sep 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 BKK → 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, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Bangkok 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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