Route brief · SHA → SAO
Shanghai → São Paulo
$1,320
−1% vs typical
seasonal median $1,335 · difference $15
Nov 17 – Dec 16 · 29 nights
ANA2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,330–$1,401
- Board rank
- Stronger than 0%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSAOSão PauloNot pretty and not trying to be — the food, the music and the fares out of here beat Rio on every count.Best windowMar–May · Sep–NovAirportsGuarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP)All routes into São PauloWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Nov is the cheapest for SHA → SAO. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares on this route stay within about $169 across the 5 months we track — season matters less here than timing the drop. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 25.5 hours outbound, on a 29-night trip — ticketed under ANA, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,320 for 18,565 km each way, that works out to about $36 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Of the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from São Paulo, this is the cheapest right now — though Delhi is within a few dollars. It is also the cheapest of the 11 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,369 then versus $1,401 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 $1,285, on Nov 26.
- Fri, Sep 18$1,489
- Fri, Oct 16$1,336
- Tue, Nov 17$1,320
- Sat, Dec 5$1,771
- Fri, Dec 25$1,401
- Sat, Dec 26$1,401
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.
Cheapest in Nov · around $1,320
1% below the $1,335 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → São Paulo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Guarulhos (GRU) · Congonhas (CGH) · Viracopos (VCP)
- Flight time
- ~25.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~18,565 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,335 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- ANA
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
SHA → SAO, answered.
Is $1,320 a good price for Shanghai to São Paulo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,335 round-trip and this fare is 1% under it, about $15. 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 São Paulo?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in São Paulo are Mar–May · Sep–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → São Paulo?
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 5 months of cached fares, Nov 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 São Paulo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under ANA. 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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