Route brief · SHA → SEZ
Shanghai → Seychelles
$921
−9% vs typical
seasonal median $1,010 · difference $89
Dec 29 – Jan 4 '27 · 6 nights
Etihad1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $969–$1,095
- Board rank
- Stronger than 17%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSEZSeychellesGranite boulders, impossible water, and self-catering guesthouses that undercut the resort price entirely.Best windowApr–May · Oct–NovAirportsSeychelles International (SEZ)All routes into SeychellesWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Dec is the cheapest for SHA → SEZ. Best time to be there: Apr–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in December around $921 and peak in February near $1,102 — a $181 spread across the 7 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 Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $921 for 8,037 km each way, that works out to about $57 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 23 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Seychelles, this fare ranks 16th — 46% above the $632 from Madrid. For context, the middle fare among the 36 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $759.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 6% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,030 then versus $1,096 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 $921, on Dec 29.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 10 of 122 days priced, from 27 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Dec · around $921
9% below the $1,010 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Seychelles · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Seychelles International (SEZ)
- Flight time
- ~15 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,037 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,010 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Oct–Nov
SHA → SEZ, answered.
Is $921 a good price for Shanghai to Seychelles?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,010 round-trip and this fare is 9% under it, about $89. 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 Seychelles?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Seychelles are Apr–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Seychelles?
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 7 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 Seychelles?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Etihad. 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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