Route brief · SHA → BKK
Shanghai → Bangkok
$191
−9% vs typical
seasonal median $210 · difference $19
Sep 8 – Sep 22 · 14 nights
Spring AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $206–$311
- Board rank
- Stronger than 17%
- Route sample
- 11 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefBKKBangkokThe backpacker cliché that still delivers: gold temples, boat noodles, $12 street-food feasts.Best windowNov–FebAirportsSuvarnabhumi (BKK) · Don Mueang (DMK)All routes into BangkokWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 11 months, Sep is the cheapest for SHA → BKK. Best time to be there: Nov–Feb.
Fares bottom out in September around $191 and peak in August near $336 — a $145 spread across the 11 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Spring Airlines nonstop and takes about 4.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip. At $191 for 2,891 km each way, that works out to about $33 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Of the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bangkok, this is the cheapest right now — though Manila is within a few dollars.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Sep 8 · $191 (18% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $232 then versus $229 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 $191, on Sep 8.
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Cheapest in Sep · around $191
9% below the $210 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Bangkok · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Suvarnabhumi (BKK) · Don Mueang (DMK)
- Flight time
- ~4.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,891 km each way
- Typical price
- $210 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Spring Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Feb
SHA → BKK, answered.
Is $191 a good price for Shanghai to Bangkok?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $210 round-trip and this fare is 9% under it, about $19. 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 Bangkok?
Across 11 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Bangkok are Nov–Feb — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Bangkok?
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, 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 Shanghai to Bangkok?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Spring Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 4.5 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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