Route brief · SHA → LIM
Shanghai → Lima
$1,615
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 5 – Oct 20 · 15 nights
Korean Air2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefLIMLimaThe best restaurant city in South America, on a cliff above the Pacific — and the way to Cusco.Best windowDec–AprAirportsJorge Chávez (LIM)All routes into LimaWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Lima: Dec–Apr. 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 21.5 hours outbound, on a 15-night trip — ticketed under Korean Air, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,615 for 17,159 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 Lima, this fare ranks 5th — 30% above the $1,238 from Delhi. For context, the middle fare among the 15 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $1,389. We have 3 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 one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 18% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,647 then versus $1,938 now, across 4 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 $1,583, on Sep 10.
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) ↔ Jorge Chávez (LIM)
- Flight time
- ~21.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~17,159 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Korean Air
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
SHA → LIM, answered.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Lima?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Lima?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Korean Air. 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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