Route brief · ROM → SHA
Rome → Shanghai
$551
−20% vs typical
seasonal median $685 · difference $134
Nov 9 – Nov 22 · 13 nights
Hainan Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $669–$782
- Board rank
- Stronger than 55%
- Route sample
- 7 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 7 months, Nov is the cheapest for ROM → SHA. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in November around $551 and peak in September near $784 — a $233 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Hainan Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $551 for 9,118 km each way, that works out to about $30 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 24 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 6th — 14% above the $482 from Istanbul. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of Rome.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $692 then versus $689 now, across 7 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 $551, on Nov 9.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 19 of 122 days priced, from 45 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Nov · around $551
20% below the $685 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Rome → Shanghai · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,118 km each way
- Typical price
- $685 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Hainan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
ROM → SHA, answered.
Is $551 a good price for Rome to Shanghai?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $685 round-trip. At $551 you're 20% below that, saving about $134, which we rate good for this route.
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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Rome to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Hainan Airlines. 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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