Route brief · YTO → SHA
Toronto → Shanghai
$902
−12% vs typical
seasonal median $1,025 · difference $123
Feb 25 '27 – Mar 5 '27 · 8 nights
Philippine Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $915–$1,159
- Board rank
- Stronger than 28%
- Route sample
- 9 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 9 months, Feb is the cheapest for YTO → SHA. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in February around $902 and peak in July near $1,160 — a $258 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 20.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Philippine Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $902 for 11,422 km each way, that works out to about $39 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 23 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 18th — 1.7× the $536 we hold from London. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 29 routes of similar length we watch out of Toronto, where the middle fare is $985.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 8% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,063 then versus $1,144 now, across 6 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 $910, on Nov 2.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 14 of 122 days priced, from 45 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Feb · around $902
12% below the $1,025 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Toronto → Shanghai · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pearson (YYZ) · Billy Bishop (YTZ) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~20.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~11,422 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,025 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Philippine Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
YTO → SHA, answered.
Is $902 a good price for Toronto to Shanghai?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,025 round-trip and this fare is 12% under it, about $123. 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 Toronto to Shanghai?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Feb 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 YTO → 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 9 months of cached fares, Feb comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Toronto to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Philippine Airlines. 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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