Route brief · DEL → SHA
Delhi → Shanghai
$364
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 27 – Oct 10 · 13 nights
Air IndiaNonstop
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 flies Air India nonstop and takes about 6.5 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip. At $364 for 4,248 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 4th — 2.2× the $162 we hold from Kuala Lumpur. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 21 routes of similar length we watch out of Delhi, where the middle fare is $375. 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.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $433 then versus $442 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 $348, on Oct 23.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- Indira Gandhi (DEL) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~6.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~4,248 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Air India
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
DEL → SHA, answered.
How far in advance should I book DEL → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Delhi to Shanghai?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Air India). The outbound leg runs around 6.5 hours.
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.
Next step
Sleeping in Shanghai?
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