Great1 stop · 7h
DEL to KULMalaysia
Kuala Lumpur
$266
usually $390
−32%
Most monthly lows $302–$446. Cheaper than every other month on record (5).
Flights · DEL → SHA
Delhi to Shanghai
Best fare, round trip
$388
−9%
below its usual $425
you keep $37
Found
- Depart
- Mon 15 Feb
- Return
- Sun 28 Feb
- Stay
- 13 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 6.5h
- Airline
IndiGo
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $391 and $439. The drop beats 18% of measured fares on the board, over 5 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 February around $388 and peak in March near $443, 14% dearer, across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 6.5 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under IndiGo, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $388 for 4,248 km each way, that works out to about $46 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $43 per 1,000 km typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 4th — 1.8× the $218 we hold from Kuala Lumpur. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 20 routes of similar length we watch out of Delhi, where the middle fare is $404. The best time to be in Shanghai: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $433 then versus $439 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 $348, on 23 Oct.
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.
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Feb, around $388
9% below the $425 typical fare
$391Oct, below the usual price. Compare October fares.$439Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$423Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$388Feb ’27, the cheapest month. Compare February fares.$443Mar, around the usual price. Compare March fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Delhi to Shanghai, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Indira Gandhi (DEL) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ≈6.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈4,248 km each way
- Typical price
- $425 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- IndiGo
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
DEL → SHA, answered.
Is $388 a good price for Delhi to Shanghai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $425 round-trip and this fare is 9% 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 Delhi to Shanghai?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Feb 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 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. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 5 months of cached fares, Feb comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Delhi to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under IndiGo. 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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