Route brief · SHA → HAN
Shanghai → Hanoi
$200
−20% vs typical
seasonal median $250 · difference $50
Dec 29 – Jan 10 '27 · 12 nights
VietjetNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $224–$268
- Board rank
- Stronger than 55%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHANHanoiOld-quarter alleys, motorbike tides and the country’s best food — and Ha Long Bay two hours out.Best windowOct–Nov · Mar–AprAirportsNoi Bai (HAN)All routes into HanoiWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Dec is the cheapest for SHA → HAN. Best time to be there: Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr.
Fares bottom out in December around $200 and peak in June near $327 — a $127 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Vietjet nonstop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 12-night trip. At $200 for 1,926 km each way, that works out to about $52 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Hanoi, this fare ranks 3rd — 20% above the $166 from Manila.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 8 · $206 (18% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $249 then versus $250 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 $178, on Sep 18.
October 2026
Cheapest in Dec · around $200
20% below the $250 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Hanoi · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Noi Bai (HAN)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,926 km each way
- Typical price
- $250 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Vietjet
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr
SHA → HAN, answered.
Is $200 a good price for Shanghai to Hanoi?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $250 round-trip. At $200 you're 20% below that, saving about $50, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Shanghai to Hanoi?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Hanoi are Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Hanoi?
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, Dec 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 Hanoi?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Vietjet). The outbound leg runs around 4 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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