Route brief · SHA → DPS
Shanghai → Bali
$252
−8% vs typical
seasonal median $275 · difference $23
Oct 4 – Oct 17 · 13 nights
AirAsia X1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $275–$320
- Board rank
- Stronger than 14%
- Route sample
- 11 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefDPSBaliRice terraces, surf breaks and volcano sunrises — long-haul fares here swing wildly, which is our favorite kind of route.Best windowApr–OctAirportsDenpasar (DPS)All routes into BaliWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 11 months, Oct is the cheapest for SHA → DPS. Best time to be there: Apr–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $252 and peak in May near $465 — a $213 spread across the 11 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 9 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under AirAsia X, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $252 for 4,487 km each way, that works out to about $28 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bali, this fare ranks 3rd — 6% above the $238 from Guangzhou. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai, where the middle fare is $252.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Oct 4 · $252 (26% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 13% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $374 then versus $327 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 $252, on Oct 4.
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Cheapest in Oct · around $252
8% below the $275 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Bali · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Denpasar (DPS)
- Flight time
- ~9 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~4,487 km each way
- Typical price
- $275 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- AirAsia X
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Oct
SHA → DPS, answered.
Is $252 a good price for Shanghai to Bali?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $275 round-trip and this fare is 8% under it, about $23. 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 Bali?
Across 11 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Bali are Apr–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Bali?
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 11 months of cached fares, Oct 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 Bali?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under AirAsia X. 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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