Route brief · SHA → PEK
Shanghai → Beijing
$175
−69% vs typical
seasonal median $565 · difference $390
Sep 6 – Sep 12 · 6 nights
Suparna AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $255–$589
- Board rank
- Stronger than 99%
- Route sample
- 10 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPEKBeijingImperial scale — the Forbidden City, the Wall an hour north, and a visa-free transit window worth checking.Best windowSep–Oct · Apr–MayAirportsCapital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)All routes into BeijingWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 10 months, Sep is the cheapest for SHA → PEK. Best time to be there: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Fares bottom out in September around $173 and peak in June near $600 — a $427 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Suparna Airlines nonstop and takes about 2 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip. At $175 for 1,078 km each way, that works out to about $81 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 · $173 (20% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $221 then versus $217 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 $158, on Aug 25.
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Cheapest in Sep · around $173
69% below the $565 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Beijing · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ~2 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,078 km each way
- Typical price
- $565 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Suparna Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
SHA → PEK, answered.
Is $175 a good price for Shanghai to Beijing?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $565 round-trip. At $175 you're 69% below that, saving about $390, which we rate exceptional for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Shanghai to Beijing?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Beijing are Sep–Oct · Apr–May — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Beijing?
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 Shanghai to Beijing?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Suparna Airlines). 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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