Route brief · SHA → HOU
Shanghai → Houston
$1,158
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 28 – Nov 3 · 6 nights
Cebu Pacific2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHOUHoustonUnited’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)All routes into HoustonWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Houston: Mar–May · Oct–Nov. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 20.5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Cebu Pacific, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,158 for 12,194 km each way, that works out to about $47 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Houston, this fare ranks 9th — 2.2× the $528 we hold from Manila. For context, the middle fare among the 25 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $1,094. 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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU)
- Flight time
- ~20.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~12,194 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Cebu Pacific
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Shanghai to Houston?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Cebu Pacific. 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.
Next step
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