Cheapest€217.85
- MIAT Mongolian Airlines MI982606:333h 28m10:01Shanghai SHAUlan Bator UBN
Door to door 6h 38mCO2 564.6 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar flight
Flights from Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar start at €217.85 and take 6h 38m at their fastest.
The Flights from Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar starts at €217.85 and takes 6h 38m door to door, run by 1 operator over 2,295 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 6h 38mDoor to door
- 3h 28mMoving
- €217.85From
- 564.6 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on 22 September 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 MIAT Mongolian Airlines | €217.85 | 6h 32m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
That is the travelling done. What happens after you walk out into Ulaanbaatar is not something we sell.
Where to sleep in Ulaanbaatar
Hotels and flats near the centre, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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When to book Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €256.7990 days
- €172.4260 days
- €176.5545 days
- €184.2230 days
- €259.7421 days
- €295.7314 days
- €434.977 days
- €389.543 days
- €519.931 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €172.42.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 202 percent. The dearest point is €519.93, 1 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 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.
- €301.04Sun
- €272.72Mon
- €217.85Tue
- €273.31Wed
- €346.47Thu
- €285.11Fri
- €295.73Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Shanghai
Air
- PVG
- SHA
Ulan Bator
Air
- UBN
- ULN
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 2,295 km against 2,228 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 Beijing, Seoul. The gap between arriving and leaving is 60 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 Shanghai at 06:33 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar
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 Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar take?
The Flight from Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar takes 6h 38m door to door, of which 3h 28m is spent moving. The route runs 2,295 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 Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar cost?
The Flight from Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar starts at €217.85 for one passenger, checked on 12 September 2026. A typical fare is €269.18. 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 Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar?
1 operators run the Flight from Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar: MIAT Mongolian Airlines. Between them they file around 3 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 Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar use?
The Flight from Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar leaves from Shanghai SHA and arrives at Ulan Bator UBN. 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 Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar?
Fares for the Flight from Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €172.42. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 202 percent, measured on 12 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Flight from Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar produce?
The Flight from Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar produces about 564.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2295 km, which works out at roughly 246 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 Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar on 12 September 2026: 2295 km of route against 2228 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €217.85, and 6h 38m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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