ExceptionalNonstop · 2.5h
SHA to CANChina
Guangzhou
$120
usually $270
−56%
Most monthly lows $163–$394. Cheaper than every other month on record (10).
Flights · SHA → BRU
Shanghai to Brussels
Best fare, round trip
$1,118
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Sun 1 Nov
- Return
- Sun 1 Nov
- Stay
- 1 night
- Flight
- Nonstop · 12.5h
- Airline
Juneyao Airlines
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
BelgiumBrusselsArt nouveau, three beer styles you cannot get elsewhere, and Bruges and Ghent under an hour by train.Best windowApr–Jun · SepAirportsZaventem (BRU) · Charleroi (CRL)Every route into BrusselsFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Juneyao Airlines nonstop and takes about 12.5 hours outbound, on a 1-night trip. At $1,118 for 9,010 km each way, that works out to about $62 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 14 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Brussels, this fare ranks 13th — 2.3× the $485 we hold from Bangkok. For context, the middle fare among the 42 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $790. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Brussels: Apr–Jun · Sep.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 18% higher than when tracking began on 23 Aug — $946 then versus $1,118 now, across 4 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 $733, on 12 Oct.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Zaventem (BRU) · Charleroi (CRL)
- Flight time
- ≈12.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈9,010 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Juneyao Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep
Good to know
SHA → BRU, answered.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Brussels?
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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Shanghai to Brussels?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Juneyao Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 12.5 hours.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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