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Cheap Flights from Shanghai to the United States

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 5 days
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San Francisco
11h 15mNonstop
from $648per person
Los Angeles
11h 39mNonstop
from $654per person
Seattle
10h 35mNonstop
from $750per person
New York
14h 55mNonstop
from $810per person
Boston
17h 22m2 stops
from $831per person
Honolulu
12h 35m2 stops
from $929per person
Chicago
16h 29m2 stops
from $953per person
Newark
17h 34m2 stops
from $976per person
Detroit
13h 26mNonstop
from $1,001per person
Atlanta
21h 03m2 stops
from $1,054per person
Houston
18h 00m2 stops
from $1,096per person
Raleigh
18h 03m2 stops
from $1,100per person
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Price, demand and travel trends for Shanghai to the United States flights

Use KAYAK data on prices, travel dates, airlines and seasonal trends to compare options and book flights with more confidence.

Are flights from Shanghai to the United States cheaper or more expensive than last year?

Fares from Shanghai to the United States are running about 4% higher than they were around this time last year, averaging $1,224 round-trip.

What are the cheapest fares from Shanghai to the United States right now?

Here are the cheapest round-trip fares from Shanghai to the United States on KAYAK in the last week:

• San Francisco (SFO) from $648
• Los Angeles (LAX) from $654
• Seattle/Tacoma Intl (SEA) from $750
• New York LaGuardia (LGA) from $810
• Boston Logan Intl (BOS) from $831

What’s the cheapest month to fly from Shanghai to the United States?

March is the cheapest time of year to fly, with average fares of $974. Prices are highest in September, when average flight costs increase to around $1,382.

When is the best time to book flights from Shanghai to the United States?

Book your flights 14 weeks before your trip. KAYAK data collected over the past 12 months shows that booking in this window can save you around 33% compared to booking last-minute (within 2 weeks of departure).

Which airport in the United States is the cheapest to fly to from Shanghai?

Based on KAYAK data from the past 12 months, the cheapest airports to fly into the United States are:

• Honolulu (HNL) (avg. price $973)
• Seattle/Tacoma Intl (SEA) (avg. price $1,039)
• Austin Bergstrom (AUS) (avg. price $1,060)

What’s the cheapest day to fly from Shanghai to the United States?

Wednesday tends to be the cheapest day to fly from Shanghai to the United States, while Friday is the most expensive. Fares run about 10% higher that day, based on the past 12 months of KAYAK data.

What's the cheapest time of day to fly from Shanghai to the United States?

Data from the past 12 months shows it's cheapest to fly to the United States during the afternoon with average prices of $1,221. The night is the most expensive time to fly, with average prices of $1,327.

Key details for Shanghai to the United States flights

Low season

October

Cheapest flight

$441
Beat the crowds with an average 36% drop in travelers.
The most popular month to fly with an average 35% increase in travelers.
One-way flight from Shanghai Pu Dong Airport to Honolulu

Flights from Shanghai to the United States: the best tips from KAYAK users

Insights shared by verified travelers who flew the route from Shanghai to the United States 
Verified travelerFlew with China Eastern-Jun 2026
Beijing would have been a better choice without the uncertainty of the connecting flight in Shanghai. There is a shuttle bus every 30 min goes between Qinhuangdao and Beijing Airport. It was still a good experience overall when I was flexible.
Verified travelerFlew with China Eastern-Apr 2026
Choose a evening flight if you are flying business, so that you could sleep while flying. If you are leaving PVG around noon time, it would be difficult to fall to sleep.

Your Shanghai to the United States flight questions, answered

Find helpful answers about this route, including flight times, airports, airlines and booking tips.

  • Is now a good time to book a flight from Shanghai to the United States?

    Yes. Fares from Shanghai to the United States are low right now. As a rule of thumb, a round-trip under $1,002 (cheaper than most fares this year) is a good deal, so if you spot one at or below that, it's a good time to book.

  • How much should I budget for a flight from Shanghai to the United States?

    Over the past 12 months, round-trip fares from Shanghai to the United States have ranged from $1,002 to $1,533.

  • What are the main airports serving the United States?

    The United States has 700 airports. The three busiest are Los Angeles (LAX) (18% of arrivals), San Francisco (SFO) (14%) and New York John F Kennedy Intl (JFK) (9%).

  • What airlines fly nonstop from Shanghai to the United States?

    Based on the flight schedule for the next 3 months, 4 airlines offer nonstop flights on this route:

    • Delta
    • United Airlines
    • China Eastern
    • American Airlines

  • Where in the United States can I fly nonstop from Shanghai?

    You can fly nonstop from Shanghai to 7 destinations in the United States. Some of the most popular among KAYAK travelers include Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Detroit.

  • Is it cheaper to fly with a layover from Shanghai to the United States?

    Yes, nonstop flights from Shanghai to the United States average $1,267 over the past 12 months, but flights with a layover can cost less. The most affordable connecting airports are:

    • Chengdu Tianfu Intl (TFU) (avg. price $713)
    • Wuhan (WUH) (avg. price $778)
    • Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) (avg. price $800)

  • How long is a flight from Shanghai to the United States?

    Nonstop flights take 12h 06m on average. The fastest scheduled flight takes 10h 35m, from Shanghai Pu Dong (PVG) to Seattle/Tacoma Intl (SEA).

  • How often are flights from Shanghai to the United States delayed and what's the average delay?

    18% of flights on this route are delayed by at least 15 minutes. The average delay is 2h 44m.

  • Which cabin classes are available on flights from Shanghai to the United States?

    On flights from Shanghai to the United States you can book Economy Class, Premium Economy Class, Business Class or First Class.

  • What are some popular landmarks in the United States?

    KAYAK travelers' favorite landmarks in the United States include:

    • Times Square
    • Universal Orlando Resort
    • New York City Center
    • San Antonio River Walk

  • What are the earliest and latest flights from Shanghai to the United States?

    The earliest nonstop flight from Shanghai to the United States departs at 10:00 am and the latest departs at 8:55 pm. Nonstop flights take about 12h 06m.

Your guide to booking Shanghai to the United States flights

Get tips on when to book, when to fly and what to know before your trip.
  • If you can plan ahead, the sweet spot for booking your flight is 14 weeks before your trip. KAYAK data shows fares in this window are around 33% lower than last-minute bookings (made within 2 weeks of departure). Not ready to commit? Set a Price Alert and we'll let you know when prices change.
  • If your travel dates are flexible, book your trip for March when flights are typically cheapest and avoid September when prices are at their highest.
  • Flying on Wednesday is usually the cheapest. Flights on Friday cost about 10% more on average, so being flexible with your travel dates could help you save.
  • If arriving on time matters more than price, consider flying with one of the most punctual airlines on this route: United Airlines, Delta, China Eastern and China Southern.
  • If you're looking to save, Honolulu (HNL) is the cheapest airport to fly into from Shanghai. If you have onward travel, don't forget to factor in the cost of your journey by train, bus or domestic flight.
  • Start your trip in New York, which is the most popular destination in the United States. From there, it's easy to continue on to other popular destinations such as Las Vegas, Chicago and Orlando.
  • If you want the shortest trip, choose the nonstop route from Shanghai Pu Dong Airport to the United States. If you'd rather save money, the route from Shanghai Hongqiao Intl Airport via Chengdu Tianfu Intl (TFU) is usually the cheapest.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Shanghai to the United States

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Shanghai to the United States? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
8.1
Asiana AirlinesOverall score based on 572 reviews
8.3Boarding
8.5Crew
7.6Entertainment
8.0Food
8.0Comfort
Airline reviews

Food could be better it was okay. Entertainment seems dated it was something but in this day and age could be a lot better.

8.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Mar 2026
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Food could be better it was okay. Entertainment seems dated it was something but in this day and age could be a lot better.

It was great, but my bag was not loaded onto the connecting flight. I'm currently getting it resolved. If this isn't a problem, everything else was excellent.

The aircraft was massive (A-380) and became crowded with 400+ passengers on board.

Coming back to America was a peaceful flight everyone and everything was perfect

Flight was too cold. I wore a regular cotton tee and it wasn’t enough. It was a night time flight so I would have thought a blanket would be provided to passengers. A 4 hour flight and no options for a meal? I flew Asiana the next day from Seoul to Manilla. Same duration, 4 hours. They give everyone a pillow and blanket and serve a meal. Why is United so cheap and holding back meals and amenities? Also, they promote too much gay stuff and DEI in their advertisements. Please be mindful of other beliefs and don’t shove your gay ideology down my throat.

Staff always with a smile and very helpful with my mom who has mobility issues.

The seats felt very small. We were supplied with pillows and blankets, which was nice. Lots of noise from the bathroom, plus exterior noise. Made it hard to hear the entertainment system, even using my own noise-cancelling headphones. The food was really bad. I generally request a vegetarian meal and one was supplied, but the pasta was cold and hard and there was nothing pleasant about it. Two meals were served on this flight; one was a repeat of the meal I had had on the flight immediately preceding this one, which was bad enough I didn't even try it. Drinks were very limited. All I wanted was water, and on a 10.5 hour flight, I was given 3 cups of about 3 ounces each.

We took business class, It was comfortable and I was able to sleep.

Great service. They could offer vegetarian food and do more to reduce waste.

Very comfortable seats, delicious meals, and friendly and helpful staff

As an Elevance employee, don't we get priority boarding? Also, I boarded zone 5 and could not get normal carry on in luggage space. There were many Delta employees on the flight and their bags, which were large and could only fit two bags per compartment, got preference over customers so I had to check my bag.

Everything went smoothly, WiFi connection was strong. Time to upgrade the regional planes, we are all on top of each other. No room to comfortably do anything.

The bathroom is disgustingly dirty. It looks like the crew members didn’t clean it on a regular basis. Also, who made the bathroom so small?. I am not a big girl but I still feel very cramped inside. Def unpleasant experience to use the bathroom.

My experience with Delta is always pleasant. My return flight #1426 from ATL to RIC was very delayed with departure and landing. It also took a substantial amount of time for baggage claim. It was already late at night, so the delays made for a very long day. I did not get home until after 12 midnight.

I had a great flight with delta. Plane was clean and the staff was nice, I would fly again with delta.

After flying with Qatar Airways and Kenya Airlines. Delta leaves a lot to be desired

A 6hr delay is going to put a damper on all reviews. It was almost impossible to get into the Delta club also. Zero conveyance. I could not use my status for anything. Makes me wonder why am I loyal to delta?

I fly coach so there is always the feeling everyone up front has more space than me. Everything was fine - on time which is the most important thing!

Great overall experience and use of the Delta One lounge was amazing!

I used by Skymiles to upgrade to First so that I could comfortably work using my laptop. But WiFi was intermittent and unavailable for long periods. I feel like I wasted 70,000 miles :(

Comfortable economy seats, good food. Didn't like: there was a crying and noisy 2 yr old directly behind me.. finally I found an attendant and asked for ear plugs. That part was good. It would have been better for an attendant to come around with a basket of ear plugs... All in all it was excellent.

worst experience ever, they cancelled my very long 2 flight 20hours+flying time trip 8 hours before departure. The only options given were change of dates. the customer line was the worst with a wait of around 30 minutes each time you called to talk to an agent who couldnt help much anyways. :eft me scrambling to cancel and book an entirely new itinerary with other airlines. Worst ever and will not consider Cathay pacific anytime in the future

The biggest problem was that I originally had a seat in the first row of premium economy as I had booked months earlier. I checked in and my boarding pass showed the seat in the first row as I had specified. When I got to the gate, the agent took my boarding pass and changed my seat to one in the last row in premium economy against the window. I had specifically booked the first row early for the legroom and for my ability to easily get out and use the restroom when I needed, since I do that quite often. The gate agents explanation was that the food tray on the seat in the first row was not working, so they gave me the seat in the last row. However, when I got on the plane, somebody was sitting in my original seat, and they sat there for the whole 14-hour flight with the tray working perfectly well. I was cheated by someone at the Cathay gate in Hong Kong. It was an outright, unforgivable lie by the gate agent or someone else at Cathay Pacific. I think this is very poor and inexcusable conduct by the people at Cathay Pacific. Perhaps somebody paid the gate agent extra money (bribe)to switch my seat and make it very difficult for me, or something else, but t was a sad experience and a very negative mark on Cathay Pacific.

Good. However the passenger in the search next to mine kept coughing. When we landed in Dallas we had to pick up.bags instead of going strait to the destination (which passengers do in Atlanta)

In between two meals period they're not providing something like banana / cup noodles or bugger. It's really fell sad that I was asking have to wait for 3 hours for second meal. (breakfast)

The crew are timely, friendly and professional. I was very impressed.

They overbooked the flight and reassigned my seat. To add insult they lied that my assigned seat was broken and promptly gave it to someone else

Jain veg meal I opted was super in taste but there was no sweet/desserts with it. I was a big missing in the meal...Please add some sweets to end the meal with 😊

The meat-and-rice combination was a good idea, but the food could use some improvement. The meat looked a bit mushy and almost like ground meat, which wasn’t very appetizing, and the flavor was just average. Other than that, everything else was great.

It as great, my in flight entertainment was malfunctioning though.

The real problem is that the WIFI for a westerner is terrible. To not be able to properly use Instagram, Whatssap on such a long flight makes the flight miserable. The flight attendants are all like busy bees, efficient.

Crew is polite, but artificially polite. You can see and feel it. Food could be better.

Broken business class seat which could not convert into a bed and had to switch to a narrower aisle seat to sleep

Suck! Sat in plane on the tarmac (hot) over 2 hours

The flight was delayed. The staff made us wait in the room that is too small and it was crowded and with no seats available for waiting. They did not tell us why the delay occurred.

While boarding at PVG, there was a ticket checking at the gate, then there was another ticket checking at the bottom of the escalator, which created quite a dangerous congestion. Not sure which idiot made this absolutely unnecessary arrangement.

China Eastern as a member of Sky Alliance airlines should have the same standards overall of their partners, Besides the seats comforts everything else is bellow the standard for a business class travelers. A BIG ISSUE FOR NON-CHINESE PASSENGERS IS THE ABILITY TO CHECK IN ONLINE, by making so difficult or almost impossible there is no chance to get a seat assignment ahead of time then go to the airport and get what is left. THIS IS NOT a SKY TEAM modality.

Pillow and blanket are dirty. My son got multiple bites during the flight

Flight was on time. My group paid for seat’s so that us four can be seated next to each other. We all got separated. We all got middle seats, which made it more difficult to be able to get up and stretch or use the restroom. We tried talking to the employees at China Eastern and they were of no help. We will not be taking this flight or recommend this route to others in the future. Also I will be contacting customer service on how I can get our money back for paying for assigned seats.

China eastern was fantastic. I had read so many bad reviews that had made me nervous. However, I found that the flight attendant’s, and customer service check in etc. etc. was excellent. I had no problems. I would fly with them again!

It is completely insane to me that first class does not include WiFi. Also does not include lounge access. Port for phone charging did not work. The crew was absolutely lovely, and the food was excellent.

I appreciate how quickly and kindly the people at the gate at DCA accommodated several of us who wanted to switch from the 6pm flight to the 5pm flight at the last minute. The flight crew was helpful to us too (dealing with luggage).

Went from a plane with free internet to a plane with paid internet. The entertainment screens didn’t work. Crammed in the back and the crew hit my knee with the cart really hard - it hurt. No apologies. I’m still limping today.

Very uncomfortable and cramped seats. Everything else was okay, the crew members were nice but nothing was exceptional.

Check in went smoothly. Flight attendant who was assigned my area barely paid any attention to me! She acted as though she was extremely busy and flustered. Maybe she was new?! I told her to change the language on my screen, she said she’d come back to help me but never did so I was able to solve the problem on my own. She came back and said she’d made adjustments on her end. Highly doubt it because I found the setting to change the language! Also, I noticed everyone was eating before we landed so I pushed my help button and she never came so I got up to find her to ask her if I can have breakfast. She said they are not serving breakfast but I can have a sandwich. Yes, that was her response as I saw everyone eating breakfast!!!

Terrible flight attendant. Rushing me as I ate my salad and appetizer. Served my dinner while I was still eating my salad. My dinner was dry and very salty. He asked me what I wanted to drink, I said flavored sparkling water. He said we don’t have that we have plain sparkling water. I’ve flown United many times and I know exactly what they have. 10 minutes later he asked me what flavor sparkling water I wanted. Did this with an attitude as if he was being bothered!

United staff were very communicative, the new starlink Wifi is amazing as I was able to work easily.

Starlink internet made the flight time shrink and I was able to work.

Seats are made for children. An 8 hour flight with tiny seats is more like a cattle car. Lost bags at Rome airport caused a 7 hour delay.

Beijing PEK to SFO. I had an economy seat on this flight. The seat comfort was acceptable. My main complaint is with the FA’s lack of personality and absence from servicing the plane, specifically restroom care (I wish I could share a pic of the restroom that I captured) and care of travelers—drink cart/availability of drinks. I'm amazed at the level of service on other International travel where a passenger is most often appreciated.

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