Route brief · SHA → HKT
Shanghai → Phuket
$208
−22% vs typical
seasonal median $265 · difference $57
Sep 13 – Sep 25 · 12 nights
Spring AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $247–$271
- Board rank
- Stronger than 61%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHKTPhuketThailand’s busiest beach island — crowded where the road goes, empty where the boat does.Best windowNov–MarAirportsPhuket (HKT)All routes into PhuketWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Sep is the cheapest for SHA → HKT. Best time to be there: Nov–Mar.
Fares bottom out in September around $208 and peak in April near $396 — a $188 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Spring Airlines nonstop and takes about 5 hours outbound, on a 12-night trip. At $208 for 3,529 km each way, that works out to about $29 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Of the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Phuket, this is the cheapest right now — 16% under the next one, Seoul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai, where the middle fare is $208.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 4 · $200 (30% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $286 then versus $282 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 $200, on Nov 4.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $208
22% below the $265 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Phuket · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Phuket (HKT)
- Flight time
- ~5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,529 km each way
- Typical price
- $265 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Spring Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
SHA → HKT, answered.
Is $208 a good price for Shanghai to Phuket?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $265 round-trip. At $208 you're 22% below that, saving about $57, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Shanghai to Phuket?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Phuket are Nov–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Phuket?
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, Sep 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 Phuket?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Spring Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 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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