Good1 stop · 18h
JKT to ISTTürkiye
Istanbul
$527
usually $690
−24%
Most monthly lows $555–$691. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · JKT → SHA
Jakarta to Shanghai
Best fare, round trip
$279
−2%
below its usual $285
you keep $6
Found
- Depart
- Thu 12 Nov
- Return
- Thu 26 Nov
- Stay
- 14 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 7.5h
- Airline
Shenzhen Airlines
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $282 and $287. The drop beats 0% of measured fares on the board, over 4 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 November around $279 and peak in April near $346, 24% dearer, across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 7.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Shenzhen Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $279 for 4,444 km each way, that works out to about $31 per 1,000 km flown. That is below 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 3rd — 28% above the $218 from Kuala Lumpur. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 11 routes of similar length we watch out of Jakarta. The best time to be in Shanghai: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $294 then versus $285 now, across 17 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 $256, on 20 Sep.
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 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $279
2% below the $285 typical fare
$282Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$279Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$287Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$346Apr ’27, above the usual price. Compare April fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Jakarta to Shanghai, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Soekarno–Hatta (CGK) · Halim (HLP) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ≈7.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈4,444 km each way
- Typical price
- $285 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Shenzhen Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
JKT → SHA, answered.
Is $279 a good price for Jakarta to Shanghai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $285 round-trip and this fare is 2% 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 Jakarta to Shanghai?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 JKT → 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 4 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Jakarta to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Shenzhen Airlines. 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.
Next step
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