Route brief · PAR → SHA
Paris → Shanghai
$649
−10% vs typical
seasonal median $720 · difference $71
Nov 14 – Dec 20 · 36 nights
Gulf Air1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $693–$756
- Board rank
- Stronger than 20%
- Route sample
- 11 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 11 months, Nov is the cheapest for PAR → SHA. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in November around $649 and peak in June near $854 — a $205 spread across the 11 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 15 hours outbound, on a 36-night trip — ticketed under Gulf Air, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $649 for 9,263 km each way, that works out to about $35 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 25 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 17th — 35% above the $482 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 36 routes of similar length we watch out of Paris, where the middle fare is $713.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Nov 14 · $649 (19% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $809 then versus $754 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 $649, on Nov 14.
Cheapest in Nov · around $649
10% below the $720 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Paris → Shanghai · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Charles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~15 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,263 km each way
- Typical price
- $720 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Gulf Air
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
PAR → SHA, answered.
Is $649 a good price for Paris to Shanghai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $720 round-trip and this fare is 10% under it, about $71. 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 Paris to Shanghai?
Across 11 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 PAR → 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 11 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Paris to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Gulf Air. 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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