Route brief · KUL → SHA
Kuala Lumpur → Shanghai
$162
−32% vs typical
seasonal median $240 · difference $78
Oct 1 – Oct 7 · 6 nights
Spring AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $208–$265
- Board rank
- Stronger than 81%
- Route sample
- 6 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 6 months, Oct is the cheapest for KUL → SHA. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in October around $162 and peak in December near $266 — a $104 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Spring Airlines nonstop and takes about 5.5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip. At $162 for 3,749 km each way, that works out to about $22 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $39 that medium-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 5 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this is the cheapest right now — 13% under the next one, Bangkok.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Oct 1 · $162 (39% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 8% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $253 then versus $272 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 $161, on Sep 30.
Cheapest in Oct · around $162
32% below the $240 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Kuala Lumpur → Shanghai · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Kuala Lumpur (KUL) · Subang (SZB) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~5.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,749 km each way
- Typical price
- $240 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Spring Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
KUL → SHA, answered.
Is $162 a good price for Kuala Lumpur to Shanghai?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $240 round-trip. At $162 you're 32% below that, saving about $78, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Kuala Lumpur to Shanghai?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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 KUL → 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 6 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Kuala Lumpur to Shanghai?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Spring Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 5.5 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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