Route brief · SHA → KIX
Shanghai → Osaka
$257
−14% vs typical
seasonal median $300 · difference $43
Nov 9 – Nov 14 · 5 nights
Spring AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $262–$328
- Board rank
- Stronger than 35%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefKIXOsakaJapan with the volume up — street food, blunt humour, and Kyoto and Nara both under an hour by train.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsKansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)All routes into OsakaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Nov is the cheapest for SHA → KIX. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in November around $257 and peak in June near $342 — a $85 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Spring Airlines nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip. At $257 for 1,334 km each way, that works out to about $96 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Nov 9 · $257 (16% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $292 then versus $298 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 $244, on Oct 7.
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Cheapest in Nov · around $257
14% below the $300 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Osaka · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,334 km each way
- Typical price
- $300 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Spring Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
SHA → KIX, answered.
Is $257 a good price for Shanghai to Osaka?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $300 round-trip and this fare is 14% under it, about $43. 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 Osaka?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Osaka are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Osaka?
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 9 months of cached fares, Nov 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 Osaka?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Spring Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 2.5 hours.
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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