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 → JKT
Shanghai to Jakarta
Best fare, round trip
$293
−11%
below its usual $330
you keep $37
Found
- Depart
- Wed 18 Nov
- Return
- Mon 30 Nov
- Stay
- 12 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 8h
- Airline
AirAsia X
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $323 and $330. The drop beats 25% of measured fares on the board, over 4 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
IndonesiaJakartaSoutheast 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)Every route into JakartaFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in October around $251 and peak in January near $352, 40% dearer, across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 8 hours outbound, on a 12-night trip — ticketed under AirAsia X, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $293 for 4,444 km each way, that works out to about $33 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $43 per 1,000 km typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 5 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Jakarta, this fare ranks 2nd — 15% above the $255 from Guangzhou. For context, the middle fare among the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $279. The best time to be in Jakarta: May–Sep.
The 8 days we hold a cached fare for
Press a date to compare its fares
The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $309 then versus $332 now, across 18 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 $250, on 16 Oct.
- Sat 17 Oct$251lowest
- Thu 22 Oct$362
- Fri 23 Oct$323
- Sun 1 Nov$251lowest
- Wed 18 Nov$293
- Fri 11 Dec$340
- Fri 8 Jan$410
- Thu 14 Jan$352
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
Cheapest in Oct, around $251
24% below the $330 typical fare
$251Oct, the cheapest month. Compare October fares.$251Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$329Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$352Jan ’27, above the usual price. Compare January fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Shanghai to Jakarta, from cached prices.
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
- $330 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- AirAsia X
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
Good to know
SHA → JKT, answered.
Is $293 a good price for Shanghai to Jakarta?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $330 round-trip and this fare is 11% under it. 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 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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 4 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Shanghai to Jakarta?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under AirAsia X. 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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