Route brief · SHA → ROM
Shanghai → Rome
$624
−8% vs typical
seasonal median $675 · difference $51
Dec 29 – Jan 4 '27 · 6 nights
Hainan Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $673–$674
- Board rank
- Stronger than 14%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefROMRomeTwenty-eight centuries of showing off. Shoulder-season fares make the Colosseum a weekend idea.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsFiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)All routes into RomeWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Dec is the cheapest for SHA → ROM. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in December around $624 and peak in September near $759 — a $135 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 15 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Hainan Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $624 for 9,118 km each way, that works out to about $34 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rome, this fare ranks 10th — 1.8× the $356 we hold from Miami. 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 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 23% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $691 then versus $851 now, across 6 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 Nov 2.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 122 days priced, from 28 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
December 2026
Cheapest in Dec · around $624
8% below the $675 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Rome · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)
- Flight time
- ~15 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,118 km each way
- Typical price
- $675 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Hainan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
SHA → ROM, answered.
Is $624 a good price for Shanghai to Rome?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $675 round-trip and this fare is 8% under it, about $51. 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 4 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 4 months of cached fares, Dec 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 Rome?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Hainan Airlines. 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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