Route brief · SHA → MUC
Shanghai → Munich
$790
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Dec 26 – Dec 27 · 1 night
China Eastern1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMUCMunichBeer halls and baroque, with the Alps close enough to be a day trip and Oktoberfest pricing to match.Best windowMay–Jun · SepAirportsFranz Josef Strauss (MUC)All routes into MunichWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Munich: May–Jun · Sep. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 17 hours outbound, on a 1-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $790 for 8,777 km each way, that works out to about $45 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 19 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Munich, this fare ranks 11th — 45% above the $546 from Dallas. For context, the middle fare among the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $773. We have 2 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 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 24% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,162 then versus $886 now, across 5 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 $705, on Nov 13.
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) ↔ Franz Josef Strauss (MUC)
- Flight time
- ~17 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,777 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep
SHA → MUC, answered.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Munich?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Munich?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Eastern. 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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