ExceptionalNonstop · 2h
ROM to OTPRomania
Bucharest
$59
usually $165
−64%
Most monthly lows $79–$165. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · ROM → SHA
Rome to Shanghai
Best fare, round trip
$606
−10%
below its usual $675
you keep $69
Found
- Depart
- Sun 8 Nov
- Return
- Wed 18 Nov
- Stay
- 10 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 13h
- Airline
Turkish Airlines
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $660 and $742. The drop beats 21% of measured fares on the board, over 7 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 $579 and peak in October near $857, 48% dearer, across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 10-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $606 for 9,118 km each way, that works out to about $33 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 24 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 14th — 36% above the $444 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 37 routes of similar length we watch out of Rome, where the middle fare is $736. 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 6% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $692 then versus $651 now, across 18 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 $530, on 17 Nov.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 11 of 111 days priced, from 98 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
1234567Sunday 8 November: $579. Compare fares from this day.Monday 9 November: $642. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 10 November: $696. Compare fares from this day.1112131415Monday 16 November: $620. Compare fares from this day.17Wednesday 18 November: $597. Compare fares from this day.192021222324252627282930
December 2026
12345678910111213141516171819202122Wednesday 23 December: $829. Compare fares from this day.242526272829Wednesday 30 December: $853. Compare fares from this day.31
January 2027
123456Thursday 7 January: $696. Compare fares from this day.891011121314151617181920Thursday 21 January: $651. Compare fares from this day.22232425Tuesday 26 January: $612. Compare fares from this day.2728293031
Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $579
14% below the $675 typical fare
$857Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.$579Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$742Dec, above the usual price. Compare December fares.$612Jan ’27, below the usual price. Compare January fares.$660Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$725Apr, above the usual price. Compare April fares.$674Aug, around the usual price. Compare August fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Rome to Shanghai, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ≈13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈9,118 km each way
- Typical price
- $675 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
ROM → SHA, answered.
Is $606 a good price for Rome to Shanghai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $675 round-trip and this fare is 10% 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 Rome to Shanghai?
Across 7 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 ROM → 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 7 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 Rome to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Turkish Airlines. 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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