Route brief · SHA → JKT
Shanghai → Jakarta
$257
−10% vs typical
seasonal median $285 · difference $28
Apr 21 '27 – Apr 26 '27 · 5 nights
AirAsia X1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $272–$312
- Board rank
- Stronger than 20%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefJKTJakartaSoutheast Asia’s largest city and the cheapest way into the rest of Indonesia — Bali is a domestic hop from here.Best windowMay–SepAirportsSoekarno–Hatta (CGK) · Halim (HLP)All routes into JakartaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Apr is the cheapest for SHA → JKT. Best time to be there: May–Sep.
Fares bottom out in April around $257 and peak in February near $384 — a $127 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 8 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under AirAsia X, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $257 for 4,444 km each way, that works out to about $29 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 5 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Jakarta, this fare ranks 2nd — 7% above the $240 from Guangzhou. For context, the middle fare among the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $252.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $309 then versus $315 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 $265, on Oct 14.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 101 days priced, from 31 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Apr · around $257
10% below the $285 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Jakarta · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Soekarno–Hatta (CGK) · Halim (HLP)
- Flight time
- ~8 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~4,444 km each way
- Typical price
- $285 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- AirAsia X
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
SHA → JKT, answered.
Is $257 a good price for Shanghai to Jakarta?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $285 round-trip and this fare is 10% under it, about $28. 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 Jakarta?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Apr comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Jakarta are May–Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Jakarta?
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 6 months of cached fares, Apr 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 Jakarta?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under AirAsia X. 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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