Route brief · OSL → SHA
Oslo → Shanghai
$687
−12% vs typical
seasonal median $780 · difference $93
Sep 21 – Oct 19 · 28 nights
China Eastern1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $715–$778
- Board rank
- Stronger than 28%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
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 4 months, Sep is the cheapest for OSL → SHA. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in September around $687 and peak in December near $903 — a $216 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 15 hours outbound, on a 28-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $687 for 8,087 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 22 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 22nd — 43% above the $482 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 31 routes of similar length we watch out of Oslo, where the middle fare is $826.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $931 then versus $903 now, across 5 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 $645, on Sep 28.
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.
Cheapest in Sep · around $687
12% below the $780 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Oslo → Shanghai · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Gardermoen (OSL) · Torp (TRF) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~15 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,087 km each way
- Typical price
- $780 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
OSL → SHA, answered.
Is $687 a good price for Oslo to Shanghai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $780 round-trip and this fare is 12% under it, about $93. 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 Oslo to Shanghai?
Across 4 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 OSL → 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 4 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 Oslo to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Eastern. 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.
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