Chengdu to Shanghai: buy now or wait?
Typical one-way fare Chengdu→Shanghai: €81 (median of 32 daily lowest fares we tracked); under €69 is a good price; cheapest month: February; book 56–83 days ahead.
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Fare Desk notes
Today's fare for this route is €72, the lowest we have recorded. It is cheaper than 91% of the fares we logged, and the typical median fare sits at €83. Our dataset contains 1906 observations, with the minimum seen also at €72. The return leg from Shanghai to Chengdu is priced at €81 today, close to its €83 typical level.
We see three airlines offering the route: Spring Airlines at €72, Juneyao Airlines at €82, and China Southern Airlines at €87. Booking 56 to 83 days ahead usually yields a typical price of €90, saving €12 versus last-minute buying. The data also shows that September typically costs €83, while January is higher at €94. Given the current price and its position in the historical range, our verdict is Buy now.
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What the history says
Based on 2,118 prices we recorded on this exact route, compared against the same departure month.
Best booking window
56–83 days — is when this route has been cheapest to book: €90 typical, on 410 observations. That is about €12 less than booking in the last two weeks.
Cheapest months to fly to Shanghai
Booking tips from our fare data
- How far in advance should you book a flight?
- Book 1.5–2 months before departure. Tracking the same flights at every lead time (110,945 flights on 21,717 routes, 2026-06-14 to 2026-11-10), that window had the smallest average premium over each flight's lowest fare: +16.3%, against +48.8% in the last 3 days.
- How much does a flight in Europe cost?
- €114 one way at the median, across 28,636 routes within Europe (fares observed 2026-06-14 to 2026-11-10). The cheapest countries to fly to were Albania (€58), Malta (€64), Italy (€76); the dearest Belarus (€299) and Russia (€291).
- What is the cheapest day of the week to fly?
- Wednesday. Comparing each fare with the median of its own route, Wednesday departures were +3.9% and Tuesday +4.2%, while Friday was the dearest at +10.4%. Weekend departures cost more than midweek ones.
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