ExceptionalNonstop · 1.5h
LAX to LASUnited States
Las Vegas
$38
usually $125
−70%
Most monthly lows $67–$247. Cheaper than every other month on record (6).
Flights · LAX → SHA
Los Angeles to Shanghai
Best fare, round trip
$587
−5%
below its usual $615
you keep $28
Found
- Depart
- Fri 4 Dec
- Return
- Sat 12 Dec
- Stay
- 8 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 21h
- Airline
Sichuan Airlines
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $588 and $816. The drop beats 5% of measured fares on the board, over 5 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 $587 and peak in June near $1,028, 75% dearer, across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 21 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Sichuan Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $587 for 10,434 km each way, that works out to about $28 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 per 1,000 km that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 30 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 9th — 32% above the $444 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 51 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles, where the middle fare is $727. The best time to be in Shanghai: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: 4 Dec, $587
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 13% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $804 then versus $912 now, across 19 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 $473, on 13 Oct.
October 2026
November 2026
1234567Sunday 8 November: $588, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Monday 9 November: $768, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.10111213141516171819Friday 20 November: $961, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.21222324Wednesday 25 November: $831, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 26 November: $797, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.27282930
December 2026
Tuesday 1 December: $774, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.2Thursday 3 December: $815, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Friday 4 December: $587, the cheapest day in view. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 5 December: $775, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.6789101112Sunday 13 December: $1.1k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.1415161718Saturday 19 December: $1.8k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 20 December: $1.4k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Monday 21 December: $1.4k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 22 December: $1.3k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 23 December: $1.3k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 24 December: $1.1k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.25Saturday 26 December: $1.1k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.27Monday 28 December: $920, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.293031
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CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualCached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026 · bands from 86 tracked fares
Cheapest in Dec, around $587
5% below the $615 typical fare
$616Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$588Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$587Dec, the cheapest month. Compare December fares.$816Mar ’27, above the usual price. Compare March fares.$1028Jun, above the usual price. Compare June fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Los Angeles to Shanghai, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ≈21 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈10,434 km each way
- Typical price
- $615 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Sichuan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
LA → SHA, answered.
Is $587 a good price for Los Angeles to Shanghai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $615 round-trip and this fare is 5% 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 Los Angeles to Shanghai?
Across 5 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 LA → 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 5 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 Los Angeles to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Sichuan 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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