Route brief · MNL → SHA
Manila → Shanghai
$246
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 20 – Sep 26 · 6 nights
Air China1 stop
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 5 months, Sep is the cheapest for MNL → SHA. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in September around $138 and peak in January near $273 — a $135 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 7 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $246 for 1,850 km each way, that works out to about $66 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 5 months of prices we hold for this route the typical fare is $215, so at $246 this one is $31 above it — no discount to claim here.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 3 · $141 (31% below median)
Tap any day → live search
The median cached fare across this calendar is 31% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $155 then versus $203 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 $136, on Oct 17.
Cheapest in Sep · around $138
36% below the $215 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Manila → Shanghai · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~7 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,850 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
MNL → SHA, answered.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Manila to Shanghai?
Across 5 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 MNL → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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, 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 Manila to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air China. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
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.
Next step
Sleeping in Shanghai?
Lock the flight first — then compare stays for Sep 20 – Sep 26 · 6 nights.
Browse hotels ↗
Missed it?
Cached fares expire. This route has a feed of its own — follow it and the next MNL → SHA drop reaches you as soon as we find it.
Follow MNL → SHA