Route brief · SHA → SJU
Shanghai → San Juan
$1,389
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 30 – Nov 14 · 15 nights
Korean Air4 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSJUSan JuanFive centuries of old town on a Caribbean island that takes US dollars and needs no passport from the States.Best windowDec–AprAirportsLuis Muñoz Marín (SJU)All routes into San JuanWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in San Juan: Dec–Apr. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 4 stops and takes about 23.5 hours outbound, on a 15-night trip — ticketed under Korean Air, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,389 for 14,430 km each way, that works out to about $48 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from San Juan, this fare ranks 3rd — 38% above the $1,004 from Dubai. For context, the middle fare among the 16 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $1,312. 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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Luis Muñoz Marín (SJU)
- Flight time
- ~23.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~14,430 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Korean Air
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
SHA → SJU, answered.
How far in advance should I book SHA → San Juan?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Shanghai to San Juan?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Korean Air. 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 August 5). 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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