Route brief · SHA → PAR
Shanghai → Paris
$704
−13% vs typical
seasonal median $810 · difference $106
Mar 18 '27 – Mar 21 '27 · 3 nights
Finnair1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $788–$852
- Board rank
- Stronger than 31%
- Route sample
- 8 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPARParisStill the benchmark. Croissant inflation is real, but a $380 crossing fixes the math.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsCharles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY)All routes into ParisWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 8 months, Mar is the cheapest for SHA → PAR. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in March around $704 and peak in February near $875 — a $171 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 17.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under Finnair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $704 for 9,263 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Paris, this fare ranks 9th — 34% above the $527 from Kuala Lumpur. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai, where the middle fare is $790.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $858 then versus $922 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 $700, on Sep 10.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 16 of 101 days priced, from 41 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Mar · around $704
13% below the $810 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Paris · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Charles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY)
- Flight time
- ~17.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,263 km each way
- Typical price
- $810 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Finnair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
SHA → PAR, answered.
Is $704 a good price for Shanghai to Paris?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $810 round-trip and this fare is 13% under it, about $106. 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 Paris?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Mar comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Paris are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Paris?
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 8 months of cached fares, Mar 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 Paris?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Finnair. 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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