RareNonstop · 2.5h
MUC to ALCSpain
Alicante
$117
usually $220
−47%
Most monthly lows $220–$267. Cheaper than every other month on record (4).
Flights · MUC → SHA
Munich to Shanghai
Best fare, round trip
$668
−4%
below its usual $695
you keep $27
Found
- Depart
- Wed 18 Nov
- Return
- Thu 26 Nov
- Stay
- 8 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 12h
- Airline
Finnair
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $687 and $709. The drop beats 3% 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 November around $668 and peak in October near $879, 32% dearer, across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Finnair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $668 for 8,777 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 23 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 19th — 50% above the $444 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 39 routes of similar length we watch out of Munich, where the middle fare is $741. The best time to be in Shanghai: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $905 then versus $769 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 $659, on 25 Nov.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 13 of 109 days priced, from 87 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
12345Friday 6 November: $815. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 7 November: $693. Compare fares from this day.8910111213Saturday 14 November: $710. Compare fares from this day.151617Wednesday 18 November: $668. Compare fares from this day.19202122Monday 23 November: $716. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 24 November: $736. Compare fares from this day.25262728Sunday 29 November: $769. Compare fares from this day.Monday 30 November: $785. Compare fares from this day.
December 2026
Tuesday 1 December: $693. Compare fares from this day.2345678910111213141516Thursday 17 December: $841. Compare fares from this day.1819202122232425262728293031
January 2027
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Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $668
4% below the $695 typical fare
$879Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.$668Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$693Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$709Mar ’27, around the usual price. Compare March fares.$687May, around the usual price. Compare May fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Munich to Shanghai, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Franz Josef Strauss (MUC) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ≈12 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,777 km each way
- Typical price
- $695 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Finnair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
MUC → SHA, answered.
Is $668 a good price for Munich to Shanghai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $695 round-trip and this fare is 4% 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 Munich to Shanghai?
Across 5 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 MUC → 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, Nov comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Munich to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Finnair. 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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