Cheapest€374.20
- Turkish Airlines TA312614:025h 49m19:51Almaty ALAShanghai SHA
Door to door 8h 59mCO2 626.5 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Almaty to Shanghai flight
Flights from Almaty to Shanghai start at €434.38 and take 8h 59m at their fastest.
The Flights from Almaty to Shanghai starts at €434.38 and takes 8h 59m door to door, run by 1 operator over 4,233 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.
- 8h 59mDoor to door
- 5h 49mMoving
- €434.38From
- 626.5 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 4 October 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Airlines
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Turkish Airlines | €374.20 | 8h 55m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
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Where to sleep in Shanghai
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When to book Almaty to Shanghai
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €422.5890 days
- €378.9260 days
- €296.3245 days
- €322.2830 days
- €374.2021 days
- €434.3814 days
- €560.647 days
- €570.083 days
- €616.691 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €296.32.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 108 percent. The dearest point is €616.69, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €434.38Sun
- €456.21Mon
- €447.36Tue
- €440.87Wed
- €626.72Thu
- €533.50Fri
- €523.47Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Almaty
Air
- ALA
Shanghai
Air
- PVG
- SHA
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 4,233 km against 4,110 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Ürümqi, E’zhou, Beijing, Chengdu. The gap between arriving and leaving is 74 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Almaty at 06:15 and the last at 14:02, across 6 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Almaty to Shanghai
The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does the Flight from Almaty to Shanghai take?
The Flight from Almaty to Shanghai takes 8h 59m door to door, of which 5h 49m is spent moving. The route runs 4,233 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
How much does the Flight from Almaty to Shanghai cost?
The Flight from Almaty to Shanghai starts at €434.38 for one passenger, checked on 13 September 2026. A typical fare is €524.95. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Flight from Almaty to Shanghai?
1 operators run the Flight from Almaty to Shanghai: Turkish Airlines. Between them they file around 6 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Flight from Almaty to Shanghai use?
The Flight from Almaty to Shanghai leaves from Almaty ALA and arrives at Shanghai SHA. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
When should I book the Flight from Almaty to Shanghai?
Fares for the Flight from Almaty to Shanghai bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €296.32. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 108 percent, measured on 13 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Flight from Almaty to Shanghai produce?
The Flight from Almaty to Shanghai produces about 626.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 4233 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
Where these numbers come from
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Almaty to Shanghai on 13 September 2026: 4233 km of route against 4110 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €434.38, and 8h 59m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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