ExceptionalNonstop · 2.5h
SHA to CANChina
Guangzhou
$120
usually $270
−56%
Most monthly lows $163–$394. Cheaper than every other month on record (10).
Flights · SHA → HOU
Shanghai to Houston
Best fare, round trip
$1,283
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Tue 2 Mar
- Return
- Tue 16 Mar
- Stay
- 14 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 26.5h
- Airline
Qatar Airways
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
United StatesHoustonUnited’s Latin America gateway, the best Vietnamese food in the country, and NASA on the edge of town.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsBush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU)Every route into HoustonFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 26.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Qatar Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,283 for 12,194 km each way, that works out to about $53 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Houston, this fare ranks 10th — 1.8× the $704 we hold from Istanbul. For context, the middle fare among the 29 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $977. 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Houston: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on 16 Aug — $1,195 then versus $1,207 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 $1,158, on 28 Oct.
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.
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU)
- Flight time
- ≈26.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈12,194 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Qatar Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
Good to know
SHA → HOU, answered.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Houston?
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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Shanghai to Houston?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Qatar Airways. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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