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 → PAR
Shanghai to Paris
Best fare, round trip
$674
−17%
below its usual $815
you keep $141
Found
- Depart
- Thu 12 Nov
- Return
- Tue 17 Nov
- Stay
- 5 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 17.5h
- Airline
Air Algerie
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $714 and $900. The drop beats 47% of measured fares on the board, over 9 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
FranceParisStill the benchmark. Croissant inflation is real, but a $380 crossing fixes the math.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsCharles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY)Every route into ParisFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in November around $674 and peak in February near $1,029, 53% dearer, across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 17.5 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under Air Algerie, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $674 for 9,263 km each way, that works out to about $36 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Paris, this fare ranks 10th — 50% above the $450 from Los Angeles. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 42 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai, where the middle fare is $800. The best time to be in Paris: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 9% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $858 then versus $784 now, across 19 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 $644, on 26 Jan '27.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 18 of 109 days priced, from 95 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
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November 2026
Sunday 1 November: $815. Compare fares from this day.2345Friday 6 November: $727. Compare fares from this day.7Sunday 8 November: $681. Compare fares from this day.Monday 9 November: $756. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 10 November: $675. Compare fares from this day.11Thursday 12 November: $674. Compare fares from this day.1314Sunday 15 November: $677. Compare fares from this day.16171819Friday 20 November: $785. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 21 November: $872. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 22 November: $883. Compare fares from this day.Monday 23 November: $757. Compare fares from this day.24252627282930
December 2026
Tuesday 1 December: $838. Compare fares from this day.23456Monday 7 December: $755. Compare fares from this day.89101112131415161718Saturday 19 December: $782. Compare fares from this day.20212223242526Sunday 27 December: $787. Compare fares from this day.2829Wednesday 30 December: $787. Compare fares from this day.31
January 2027
12Sunday 3 January: $873. Compare fares from this day.4567891011121314151617181920212223242526Wednesday 27 January: $809. Compare fares from this day.28293031
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $674
17% below the $815 typical fare
$900Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.$674Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$708Dec, below the usual price. Compare December fares.$809Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$1029Feb, above the usual price. Compare February fares.$714Mar, below the usual price. Compare March fares.$845Apr, around the usual price. Compare April fares.$813May, around the usual price. Compare May fares.$952Jul, above the usual price. Compare July fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Shanghai to Paris, from cached prices.
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
- $815 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air Algerie
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
SHA → PAR, answered.
Is $674 a good price for Shanghai to Paris?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $815 round-trip and this fare is 17% under it. 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 9 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 9 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Shanghai to Paris?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Algerie. 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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