Route brief · SHA → HKG
Shanghai → Hong Kong
$153
−13% vs typical
seasonal median $175 · difference $22
Nov 3 – Nov 5 · 2 nights
Spring AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $160–$258
- Board rank
- Stronger than 31%
- Route sample
- 10 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHKGHong KongVertical, humid and relentless — and the cheapest place in Asia to catch a connecting fare somewhere else.Best windowOct–DecAirportsHong Kong (HKG)All routes into Hong KongWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 10 months, Nov is the cheapest for SHA → HKG. Best time to be there: Oct–Dec.
Fares bottom out in November around $153 and peak in June near $296 — a $143 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Spring Airlines nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 2-night trip. At $153 for 1,227 km each way, that works out to about $62 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 13 · $156 (21% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $199 then versus $191 now, across 4 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 $142, on Sep 22.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $153
13% below the $175 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Hong Kong · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Hong Kong (HKG)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,227 km each way
- Typical price
- $175 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Spring Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Dec
SHA → HKG, answered.
Is $153 a good price for Shanghai to Hong Kong?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $175 round-trip and this fare is 13% under it, about $22. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Shanghai to Hong Kong?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Hong Kong are Oct–Dec — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Hong Kong?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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, Nov 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 Hong Kong?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Spring Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 3 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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