Route brief · SHA → DEL
Shanghai → Delhi
$405
−2% vs typical
seasonal median $415 · difference $10
Nov 16 – Dec 7 · 21 nights
Air China1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $405–$420
- Board rank
- Stronger than 1%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefDELDelhiMughal tombs, Lutyens boulevards and the loudest markets on earth — plus the Taj Mahal at arm’s length.Best windowOct–MarAirportsIndira Gandhi (DEL)All routes into DelhiWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Nov is the cheapest for SHA → DEL. Best time to be there: Oct–Mar.
Fares bottom out in November around $405 and peak in October near $494 — a $89 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 10 hours outbound, on a 21-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $405 for 4,248 km each way, that works out to about $48 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Delhi, this fare ranks 6th — 43% above the $283 from Singapore. For context, the middle fare among the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $252.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $426 then versus $416 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 $398, on Sep 13.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 11 of 122 days priced, from 34 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Nov · around $405
2% below the $415 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Delhi · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Indira Gandhi (DEL)
- Flight time
- ~10 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~4,248 km each way
- Typical price
- $415 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Mar
SHA → DEL, answered.
Is $405 a good price for Shanghai to Delhi?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $415 round-trip and this fare is 2% under it, about $10. 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 Delhi?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Delhi are Oct–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Delhi?
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 5 months of cached fares, Nov 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 Delhi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air China. 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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