Rare2 stops · 12.5h
NYC to HNLUnited States
Honolulu
$410
usually $820
−50%
Most monthly lows $576–$946. Cheaper than every other month on record (8).
Flights · NYC → SHA
New York to Shanghai
Best fare, round trip
$904
−9%
below its usual $990
you keep $86
Found
- Depart
- Sat 17 Apr
- Return
- Thu 29 Apr
- Stay
- 12 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 25h
- Airline
American
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $961 and $1,003. The drop beats 18% of measured fares on the board, over 8 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 $896 and peak in May near $1,170, 31% dearer, across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 25 hours outbound, on a 12-night trip — ticketed under American, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $904 for 11,858 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 15th — 1.9× the $481 we hold from San Francisco. For context, the middle fare among the 26 routes of similar length we watch out of New York is $788. 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 12% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,096 then versus $961 now, across 16 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 $535, on 28 Sep.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 111 days priced, from 84 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
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November 2026
December 2026
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January 2027
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Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $896
9% below the $990 typical fare
$1040Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.$896Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$992Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$949Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$987Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$1003Mar, around the usual price. Compare March fares.$904Apr, below the usual price. Compare April fares.$1170May, above the usual price. Compare May fares.
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualPress a month to compare its fares
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, New York to Shanghai, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ≈25 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈11,858 km each way
- Typical price
- $990 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- American
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
NYC → SHA, answered.
Is $904 a good price for New York to Shanghai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $990 round-trip and this fare is 9% 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 New York to Shanghai?
Across 8 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 NYC → 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 8 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 New York to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under American. 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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