Trains from Shanghai to Shantou start at €118.04 and take 10h 29m at their fastest.
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The Trains from Shanghai to Shantou starts at €118.04 and takes 10h 29m door to door, run by 1 operator over 1,144 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 13 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€143.34 to €328.14 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.
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What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
China Railway CR215907:301h 31m09:01Shanghai railway stationShaoxing Railway StationChina Railway CR318210:176h 58m17:15Shaoxing Railway StationShantou Railway StationChanges at Shaoxing, with 76 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 10h 29mCO2 37.8 kgChanges 1Refundable
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| China Railway | None | None | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power sockets, Wi-Fi |
The train gets you into Shantou. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 6h 22m | 3h 2m | 3h 20m | €98.08 | 122.6 kg | 2 |
| Train | 10h 29m | 8h 29m | 2h | €118.04 | 37.8 kg | 1 |
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.
The Train from Shanghai to Shantou takes 10h 29m door to door, of which 8h 29m is spent moving. The route runs 1,144 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.
The Train from Shanghai to Shantou starts at €118.04 for one passenger, as of 24 September 2026. A typical fare is €118.04. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
1 operators run the Train from Shanghai to Shantou: China Railway. Between them they file around 1 departure a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
The Train from Shanghai to Shantou leaves from Shanghai railway station and arrives at Shantou Railway Station. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Travelling from Shanghai to Shantou by Flight costs €98.08 and takes 6h 22m door to door, against 10h 29m by Train. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.
Fares for the Train from Shanghai to Shantou bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €91.59. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 149 percent, measured on 24 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Train from Shanghai to Shantou produces about 37.8 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1144 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
Operators on the Train from Shanghai to Shantou publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 10h 29m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
Being on the water gives Shantou a set of days out that do not start at a station.
Day trips that leave Shantou in the morning and cover a good part of China by evening.
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10h 29m
8h 29m
€143.34 to €328.14
07:30 to 07:30
1
37.8 kg
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