Route brief · SHA → NBO
Shanghai → Nairobi
$852
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Dec 18 – Jan 9 '27 · 22 nights
Qatar Airways1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefNBONairobiA capital with a national park on its doorstep, and the standard first stop before the Mara.Best windowJun–Oct · Jan–FebAirportsJomo Kenyatta (NBO)All routes into NairobiWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Nairobi: Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb. 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 15.5 hours outbound, on a 22-night trip — ticketed under Qatar Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $852 for 9,574 km each way, that works out to about $44 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Nairobi, this fare ranks 7th — 1.8× the $473 we hold from Singapore. For context, the middle fare among the 40 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $801. 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 one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $938 then versus $889 now, across 4 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 $724, on Oct 11.
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) ↔ Jomo Kenyatta (NBO)
- Flight time
- ~15.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,574 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Qatar Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Oct · Jan–Feb
SHA → NBO, answered.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Nairobi?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Nairobi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Qatar Airways. 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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