Rare1 stop · 10.5h
WAS to LIMPeru
Lima
$347
usually $630
−45%
Most monthly lows $409–$630. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · WAS → SHA
Washington to Shanghai
Best fare, round trip
$641
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Tue 11 May
- Return
- Tue 25 May
- Stay
- 14 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 20h
- Airline
Turkish Airlines
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
ChinaShanghaiThe 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)Every route into ShanghaiFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 20 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $641 for 11,986 km each way, that works out to about $27 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $42 per 1,000 km that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 10th — 33% above the $481 from San Francisco. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 23 routes of similar length we watch out of Washington, where the middle fare is $887. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Shanghai: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
Press a date to compare its fares
The median cached fare across this calendar is 58% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,130 then versus $1,783 now, across 17 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 $540, on 10 Nov.
- Tue 10 Nov$541lowest
- Thu 19 Nov$1,149
- Fri 18 Dec$2,438
- Sat 19 Dec$2,005
- Sun 20 Dec$1,885
- Wed 23 Dec$1,681
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.
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ≈20 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈11,986 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
Good to know
WAS → SHA, answered.
How far in advance should I book WAS → 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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Washington to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Turkish Airlines. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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.
Next step
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