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 → SJO
Shanghai to San José
Best fare, round trip
$1,581
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Sun 7 Mar
- Return
- Thu 18 Mar
- Stay
- 11 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 20h
- Airline
Xiamen Airlines
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Costa RicaSan JoséNobody comes for the capital — they come for two coasts, volcanoes and cloud forest, all within four hours.Best windowDec–AprAirportsJuan Santamaría (SJO)Every route into San JoséFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 20 hours outbound, on a 11-night trip — ticketed under Xiamen Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,581 for 14,689 km each way, that works out to about $54 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from San José, this fare ranks 8th — 1.8× the $865 we hold from Istanbul. For context, the middle fare among the 19 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $1,465. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in San José: Dec–Apr.
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Juan Santamaría (SJO)
- Flight time
- ≈20 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈14,689 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Xiamen Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
Good to know
SHA → SJO, answered.
How far in advance should I book SHA → San José?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Shanghai to San José?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Xiamen 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 7 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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