Route brief · CAN → SHA
Guangzhou → Shanghai
$119
−34% vs typical
seasonal median $180 · difference $61
Sep 16 – Sep 21 · 5 nights
Spring AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $144–$244
- Board rank
- Stronger than 84%
- Route sample
- 8 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 8 months, Sep is the cheapest for CAN → SHA. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in September around $118 and peak in April near $590 — a $472 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Spring Airlines nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip. At $119 for 1,212 km each way, that works out to about $49 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 7 · $122 (22% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $155 then versus $149 now, across 7 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 $118, on Oct 21.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $118
34% below the $180 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Guangzhou → Shanghai · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Baiyun (CAN) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,212 km each way
- Typical price
- $180 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Spring Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
CAN → SHA, answered.
Is $119 a good price for Guangzhou to Shanghai?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $180 round-trip. At $119 you're 34% below that, saving about $61, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Guangzhou to Shanghai?
Across 8 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 CAN → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 8 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 Guangzhou to Shanghai?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Spring Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 2.5 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.
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