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 → ROM
Shanghai to Rome
Best fare, round trip
$669
−5%
below its usual $705
you keep $36
Found
- Depart
- Sat 26 Dec
- Return
- Sat 2 Jan
- Stay
- 7 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 14.5h
- Airline
Juneyao Airlines
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $681 and $708. The drop beats 5% of measured fares on the board, over 6 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
ItalyRomeTwenty-eight centuries of showing off. Shoulder-season fares make the Colosseum a weekend idea.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsFiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)Every route into RomeFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in December around $593 and peak in April near $715, 21% dearer, across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 14.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Juneyao Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $669 for 9,118 km each way, that works out to about $37 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rome, this fare ranks 15th — 41% above the $476 from New York. 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 Rome: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
The 8 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $691 then versus $713 now, across 17 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 $586, on 2 Nov.
- Mon 19 Oct$921
- Wed 21 Oct$703
- Fri 23 Oct$719
- Sun 25 Oct$720
- Fri 13 Nov$706
- Sun 20 Dec$839
- Mon 21 Dec$593lowest
- Sat 26 Dec$669
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.
Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Dec, around $593
16% below the $705 typical fare
$703Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$681Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$593Dec, the cheapest month. Compare December fares.$703Feb ’27, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$715Apr, around the usual price. Compare April fares.$708Jun, around the usual price. Compare June fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Shanghai to Rome, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)
- Flight time
- ≈14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈9,118 km each way
- Typical price
- $705 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Juneyao Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
SHA → ROM, answered.
Is $669 a good price for Shanghai to Rome?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $705 round-trip and this fare is 5% 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 Rome?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Rome are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Rome?
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 6 months of cached fares, Dec 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 Rome?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Juneyao Airlines. 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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