Route brief · SHA → HNL
Shanghai → Honolulu
$773
−22% vs typical
seasonal median $995 · difference $222
Jan 13 '27 – Jan 27 '27 · 14 nights
ANA1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $792–$996
- Board rank
- Stronger than 61%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHNLHonoluluWaikīkī sunsets and volcanic ridgelines — mainland fare wars put Hawai‘i under $300 more often than you’d think.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–NovAirportsDaniel K. Inouye (HNL)All routes into HonoluluWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Jan is the cheapest for SHA → HNL. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in January around $773 and peak in September near $1,207 — a $434 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 9.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under ANA, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $773 for 7,949 km each way, that works out to about $49 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Honolulu, this fare ranks 11th — 2.9× the $263 we hold from Houston. For context, the middle fare among the 36 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $759.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 43% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,008 then versus $1,443 now, across 5 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 $724, 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.
Cheapest in Jan · around $773
22% below the $995 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Honolulu · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Daniel K. Inouye (HNL)
- Flight time
- ~9.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,949 km each way
- Typical price
- $995 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- ANA
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Nov
SHA → HNL, answered.
Is $773 a good price for Shanghai to Honolulu?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $995 round-trip. At $773 you're 22% below that, saving about $222, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Shanghai to Honolulu?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Honolulu are Apr–Jun · Sep–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Honolulu?
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 4 months of cached fares, Jan 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 Honolulu?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under ANA. 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 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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