Route brief · SHA → HAM
Shanghai → Hamburg
$801
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 2 – Nov 16 · 14 nights
Finnair1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHAMHamburgMore canals than Venice and a working port at its centre — Germany at its least postcard-like.Best windowMay–SepAirportsHamburg (HAM)All routes into HamburgWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Hamburg: May–Sep. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 16.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Finnair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $801 for 8,522 km each way, that works out to about $47 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 15 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Hamburg, this fare ranks 9th — 1.8× the $454 we hold from Miami. For context, the middle fare among the 40 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $768. 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 one day 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 17 — $1,001 then versus $801 now, across 3 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 $801, on Nov 2.
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) ↔ Hamburg (HAM)
- Flight time
- ~16.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,522 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Finnair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
SHA → HAM, answered.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Hamburg?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Hamburg?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Finnair. 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 August 24). 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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