Route brief · VIE → SHA
Vienna → Shanghai
$531
−21% vs typical
seasonal median $675 · difference $144
Oct 1 – Oct 12 · 11 nights
Hainan Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $600–$751
- Board rank
- Stronger than 58%
- 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, Oct is the cheapest for VIE → SHA. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in October around $531 and peak in July near $810 — a $279 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 11-night trip — ticketed under Hainan Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $531 for 8,476 km each way, that works out to about $31 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 24 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 3rd — 10% above the $482 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of Vienna, where the middle fare is $754.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 9% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $789 then versus $719 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 $531, on Oct 1.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 18 of 122 days priced, from 52 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Oct · around $531
21% below the $675 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Vienna → Shanghai · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Schwechat (VIE) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,476 km each way
- Typical price
- $675 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Hainan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
VIE → SHA, answered.
Is $531 a good price for Vienna to Shanghai?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $675 round-trip. At $531 you're 21% below that, saving about $144, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Vienna to Shanghai?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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 VIE → 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, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Vienna to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Hainan 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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