Route brief · SEL → SHA
Seoul → Shanghai
$188
−20% vs typical
seasonal median $235 · difference $47
Sep 8 – Sep 16 · 8 nights
Eastar JetNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $218–$266
- Board rank
- Stronger than 55%
- Route sample
- 10 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 10 months, Sep is the cheapest for SEL → SHA. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in September around $188 and peak in April near $296 — a $108 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Eastar Jet nonstop and takes about 2 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip. At $188 for 867 km each way, that works out to about $108 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Sep 8 · $188 (17% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $231 then versus $224 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 $159, on Sep 19.
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Cheapest in Sep · around $188
20% below the $235 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Seoul → Shanghai · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~2 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~867 km each way
- Typical price
- $235 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Eastar Jet
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
SEL → SHA, answered.
Is $188 a good price for Seoul to Shanghai?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $235 round-trip. At $188 you're 20% below that, saving about $47, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Seoul to Shanghai?
Across 10 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 SEL → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 10 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 Seoul to Shanghai?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Eastar Jet). The outbound leg runs around 2 hours.
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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