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 → MEX
Shanghai to Mexico City
Best fare, round trip
$1,252
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Mon 2 Nov
- Return
- Sun 8 Nov
- Stay
- 6 nights
- Flight
- 3 stops · 21h
- Airline
Sichuan Airlines
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
MexicoMexico CityAltitude, murals, and arguably the best food city in the hemisphere at street prices.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsBenito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU)Every route into Mexico CityFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 3 stops and takes about 21 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Sichuan Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,252 for 12,909 km each way, that works out to about $48 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Mexico City, this fare ranks 14th — 1.6× the $772 we hold from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 24 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai, where the middle fare is $1,252. 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Mexico City: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,339 then versus $1,381 now, across 16 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 $1,020, on 2 Nov.
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 13 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 3 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Benito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU)
- Flight time
- ≈21 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈12,909 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Sichuan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
Good to know
SHA → MEX, answered.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Mexico City?
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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Shanghai to Mexico City?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Sichuan Airlines. 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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