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 → MAD
Shanghai to Madrid
Best fare, round trip
$651
−3%
below its usual $670
you keep $19
Found
- Depart
- Wed 16 Dec
- Return
- Mon 11 Jan
- Stay
- 26 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 18h
- Airline
Etihad
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $664 and $784. The drop beats 1% of measured fares on the board, over 5 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
SpainMadridDinner at 10pm, museums at world-class density, and Iberia fare sales that border on typos.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsBarajas (MAD)Every route into MadridFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in December around $651 and peak in September near $930, 43% dearer, across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 18 hours outbound, on a 26-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $651 for 10,255 km each way, that works out to about $32 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Madrid, this fare ranks 9th — 36% above the $478 from Dallas. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 46 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai, where the middle fare is $802. The best time to be in Madrid: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 34% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,089 then versus $717 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 $600, on 28 Oct.
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 Dec, around $651
3% below the $670 typical fare
$664Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$651Dec, the cheapest month. Compare December fares.$671Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$784Jul, above the usual price. Compare July fares.$930Sep, above the usual price. Compare September fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Shanghai to Madrid, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Barajas (MAD)
- Flight time
- ≈18 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈10,255 km each way
- Typical price
- $670 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
SHA → MAD, answered.
Is $651 a good price for Shanghai to Madrid?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $670 round-trip and this fare is 3% 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 Madrid?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Madrid are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Madrid?
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 5 months of cached fares, Dec 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 Madrid?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Etihad. 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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