Route brief · SHA → FRA
Shanghai → Frankfurt
$745
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 7 – Oct 13 · 6 nights
Air China3 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefFRAFrankfurtBanking towers and a river beach — mostly a place people change planes, which is exactly why fares through it are cheap.Best windowMay–SepAirportsFrankfurt (FRA) · Hahn (HHN)All routes into FrankfurtWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Frankfurt: May–Sep. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 3 stops and takes about 17.5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $745 for 8,830 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Frankfurt, this fare ranks 9th — 42% above the $524 from Miami. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai, where the middle fare is $773. 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.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 20% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,033 then versus $829 now, across 8 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 $738, on Nov 9.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Frankfurt (FRA) · Hahn (HHN)
- Flight time
- ~17.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,830 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
SHA → FRA, answered.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Frankfurt?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Shanghai to Frankfurt?
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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