Route brief · SHA → AKL
Shanghai → Auckland
$768
−16% vs typical
seasonal median $915 · difference $147
Dec 30 – Jan 19 '27 · 20 nights
Sichuan Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $832–$938
- Board rank
- Stronger than 42%
- Route sample
- 8 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefAKLAucklandA city built on fifty volcanoes between two harbours — and the start of every New Zealand road trip.Best windowNov–AprAirportsAuckland (AKL)All routes into AucklandWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 8 months, Dec is the cheapest for SHA → AKL. Best time to be there: Nov–Apr.
Fares bottom out in December around $768 and peak in January near $1,074 — a $306 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 15.5 hours outbound, on a 20-night trip — ticketed under Sichuan Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $768 for 9,381 km each way, that works out to about $41 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Auckland, this fare ranks 4th — 33% above the $576 from Los Angeles. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai, where the middle fare is $790.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 19 · $807 (15% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $957 then versus $957 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 $807, on Oct 19.
Cheapest in Dec · around $768
16% below the $915 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Auckland · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Auckland (AKL)
- Flight time
- ~15.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,381 km each way
- Typical price
- $915 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Sichuan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Apr
SHA → AKL, answered.
Is $768 a good price for Shanghai to Auckland?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $915 round-trip and this fare is 16% under it, about $147. 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 Shanghai to Auckland?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Auckland are Nov–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Auckland?
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 8 months of cached fares, Dec comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Shanghai to Auckland?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Sichuan 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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