Route brief · SAO → SHA
São Paulo → Shanghai
$1,106
−30% vs typical
seasonal median $1,570 · difference $464
Nov 14 – Nov 19 · 5 nights
Air China2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,552–$1,569
- Board rank
- Stronger than 78%
- 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, Nov is the cheapest for SAO → SHA. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in November around $1,106 and peak in September near $1,583 — a $477 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 23.5 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,106 for 18,565 km each way, that works out to about $30 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. It is also the cheapest of the 18 routes of similar length we watch out of São Paulo.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,693 then versus $1,696 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 $1,106, on Nov 14.
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 Nov · around $1,106
30% below the $1,570 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · São Paulo → Shanghai · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~23.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~18,565 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,570 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
SAO → SHA, answered.
Is $1,106 a good price for São Paulo to Shanghai?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $1,570 round-trip. At $1,106 you're 30% below that, saving about $464, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from São Paulo to Shanghai?
Across 4 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 SAO → 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, 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 São Paulo to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air China. 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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