Route brief · SHA → RAK
Shanghai → Marrakech
$860
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 31 – Nov 14 · 14 nights
Hainan Airlines2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefRAKMarrakechSouks, riads and the Atlas on the horizon — Africa’s easiest exotic weekend from Europe.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsMenara (RAK)All routes into MarrakechWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Marrakech: Mar–May · Oct–Nov. 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 20.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Hainan Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $860 for 11,230 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Marrakech, this fare ranks 3rd — 7% above the $801 from Los Angeles. For context, the middle fare among the 31 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $852. We have 1 month 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 26% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,158 then versus $860 now, across 3 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 $860, on Oct 31.
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) ↔ Menara (RAK)
- Flight time
- ~20.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~11,230 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Hainan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
SHA → RAK, answered.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Marrakech?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Marrakech?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Hainan Airlines. 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 August 30). 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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