Route brief · SHA → CAN
Shanghai → Guangzhou
$118
−26% vs typical
seasonal median $160 · difference $42
Sep 9 – Sep 10 · 1 night
Spring AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $126–$236
- Board rank
- Stronger than 71%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefCANGuangzhouCantonese cooking at its source, and China Southern’s hub — often the cheapest way into the country.Best windowOct–DecAirportsBaiyun (CAN)All routes into GuangzhouWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Sep is the cheapest for SHA → CAN. Best time to be there: Oct–Dec.
Fares bottom out in September around $118 and peak in July near $572 — a $454 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Spring Airlines nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 1-night trip. At $118 for 1,212 km each way, that works out to about $49 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 30 · $125 (23% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $158 then versus $159 now, across 7 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 $117, on Sep 7.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $118
26% below the $160 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Guangzhou · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Baiyun (CAN)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,212 km each way
- Typical price
- $160 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Spring Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Dec
SHA → CAN, answered.
Is $118 a good price for Shanghai to Guangzhou?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $160 round-trip. At $118 you're 26% below that, saving about $42, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Shanghai to Guangzhou?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Guangzhou are Oct–Dec — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Guangzhou?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 9 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 Guangzhou?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Spring Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 2.5 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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