Route brief · SHA → LCA
Shanghai → Larnaca
$900
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 23 – Nov 8 · 16 nights
Etihad2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefLCALarnacaCyprus at its cheapest entry point — a swimmable sea into November and the Troodos mountains inland.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsLarnaca (LCA) · Paphos (PFO)All routes into LarnacaWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Larnaca: May–Jun · Sep–Oct. 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 16 hours outbound, on a 16-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $900 for 7,913 km each way, that works out to about $57 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Larnaca, this fare ranks 7th — 34% above the $670 from Seoul. For context, the middle fare among the 36 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $759. We have 2 months 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.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 6% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $992 then versus $928 now, across 6 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 $870, on Nov 1.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Larnaca (LCA) · Paphos (PFO)
- Flight time
- ~16 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,913 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
SHA → LCA, answered.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Larnaca?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Larnaca?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Etihad. 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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