Route brief · SHA → MNL
Shanghai → Manila
$223
−11% vs typical
seasonal median $250 · difference $27
Oct 28 – Nov 4 · 7 nights
Air China1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $232–$256
- Board rank
- Stronger than 24%
- Route sample
- 10 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMNLManilaChaotic, warm and mostly a gateway — the islands worth the trip are a cheap domestic hop away.Best windowDec–AprAirportsNinoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)All routes into ManilaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 10 months, Oct is the cheapest for SHA → MNL. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in October around $223 and peak in May near $258 — a $35 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 7 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $223 for 1,850 km each way, that works out to about $60 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 9 · $216 (15% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 6% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $266 then versus $251 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 $216, on Nov 8.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $223
11% below the $250 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Manila · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)
- Flight time
- ~7 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,850 km each way
- Typical price
- $250 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
SHA → MNL, answered.
Is $223 a good price for Shanghai to Manila?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $250 round-trip and this fare is 11% under it, about $27. 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 Manila?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Manila are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Manila?
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 10 months of cached fares, Oct 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 Manila?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air China. 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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