Route brief · HKG → SHA
Hong Kong → Shanghai
$141
−15% vs typical
seasonal median $165 · difference $24
Sep 6 – Sep 9 · 3 nights
Hong Kong AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $160–$227
- Board rank
- Stronger than 38%
- Route sample
- 7 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 7 months, Sep is the cheapest for HKG → SHA. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in September around $129 and peak in March near $227 — a $98 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Hong Kong Airlines nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. At $141 for 1,227 km each way, that works out to about $57 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 27 · $148 (22% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $202 then versus $195 now, across 4 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 $143, on Aug 29.
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $129
22% below the $165 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Hong Kong → Shanghai · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Hong Kong (HKG) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,227 km each way
- Typical price
- $165 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Hong Kong Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
HKG → SHA, answered.
Is $141 a good price for Hong Kong to Shanghai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $165 round-trip and this fare is 15% under it, about $24. 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 Hong Kong to Shanghai?
Across 7 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 HKG → 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 7 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 Hong Kong to Shanghai?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Hong Kong 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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