Route brief · SHA → SGN
Shanghai → Ho Chi Minh City
$152
−29% vs typical
seasonal median $215 · difference $63
Oct 6 – Oct 27 · 21 nights
Spring AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $189–$276
- Board rank
- Stronger than 77%
- Route sample
- 10 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSGNHo Chi Minh CityFaster and richer than Hanoi, and the usual door to the Mekong Delta and the southern coast.Best windowDec–MarAirportsTan Son Nhat (SGN)All routes into Ho Chi Minh CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 10 months, Oct is the cheapest for SHA → SGN. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares bottom out in October around $152 and peak in August near $288 — a $136 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Spring Airlines nonstop and takes about 4.5 hours outbound, on a 21-night trip. At $152 for 2,736 km each way, that works out to about $28 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Oct 6 · $152 (35% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $235 then versus $224 now, across 6 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 $152, on Oct 6.
November 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $152
29% below the $215 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Ho Chi Minh City · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Tan Son Nhat (SGN)
- Flight time
- ~4.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,736 km each way
- Typical price
- $215 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Spring Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
SHA → SGN, answered.
Is $152 a good price for Shanghai to Ho Chi Minh City?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $215 round-trip. At $152 you're 29% below that, saving about $63, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Shanghai to Ho Chi Minh City?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Ho Chi Minh City are Dec–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Ho Chi Minh City?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 10 months of cached fares, Oct 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 Ho Chi Minh City?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Spring Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 4.5 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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