Route brief · STO → SHA
Stockholm → Shanghai
$578
−1% vs typical
seasonal median $585 · difference $7
Nov 4 – Nov 26 · 22 nights
Finnair1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $585–$587
- Board rank
- Stronger than 0%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSHAShanghaiThe Bund on one bank, a science-fiction skyline on the other — and a visa-free transit window worth checking.Best windowMar–May · Sep–NovAirportsPudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)All routes into ShanghaiWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Nov is the cheapest for STO → SHA. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in November around $578 and peak in October near $786 — a $208 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 22-night trip — ticketed under Finnair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $578 for 7,765 km each way, that works out to about $37 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 20 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 11th — 20% above the $482 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of Stockholm, where the middle fare is $623.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $691 then versus $590 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 $578, on Nov 4.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 13 of 122 days priced, from 44 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $578
1% below the $585 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Stockholm → Shanghai · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Arlanda (ARN) · Bromma (BMA) · Skavsta (NYO) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,765 km each way
- Typical price
- $585 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Finnair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
STO → SHA, answered.
Is $578 a good price for Stockholm to Shanghai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $585 round-trip and this fare is 1% under it, about $7. 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 Stockholm to Shanghai?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Shanghai are Mar–May · Sep–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book STO → Shanghai?
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, 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 Stockholm to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Finnair. 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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