ExceptionalNonstop · 1h
LIS to SVQSpain
Seville
$36
usually $125
−71%
Most monthly lows $40–$125. Cheaper than every other month on record (5).
Flights · LIS → SHA
Lisbon to Shanghai
Best fare, round trip
$694
−16%
below its usual $830
you keep $136
Found
- Depart
- Mon 14 Dec
- Return
- Mon 21 Dec
- Stay
- 7 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 14.5h
- Airline
Vueling
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $768 and $844. The drop beats 44% of measured fares on the board, over 6 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 December around $694 and peak in October near $892, 29% dearer, across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 14.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Vueling, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $694 for 10,709 km each way, that works out to about $32 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 29 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 18th — 44% above the $481 from San Francisco. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 27 routes of similar length we watch out of Lisbon, where the middle fare is $808. The best time to be in Shanghai: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
The 7 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,004 then versus $950 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 $690, on 9 Nov.
- Fri 30 Oct$892
- Mon 2 Nov$950
- Fri 13 Nov$831
- Mon 14 Dec$694lowest
- Wed 16 Dec$958
- Thu 17 Dec$1,035
- Wed 23 Dec$1,043
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 Dec, around $694
16% below the $830 typical fare
$892Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.$831Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$694Dec, the cheapest month. Compare December fares.$803Mar ’27, around the usual price. Compare March fares.$768Apr, below the usual price. Compare April fares.$844Sep, around the usual price. Compare September fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Lisbon to Shanghai, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Humberto Delgado (LIS) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ≈14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈10,709 km each way
- Typical price
- $830 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Vueling
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
LIS → SHA, answered.
Is $694 a good price for Lisbon to Shanghai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $830 round-trip and this fare is 16% 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 Lisbon to Shanghai?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Dec 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 LIS → 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, Dec comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Lisbon to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Vueling. 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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