Cheapest€217.85
- Shanghai Airlines SA578806:164h 19m10:35Shanghai SHAKota Kinabalu BKI
Door to door 7h 29mCO2 725.5 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu flight
Flights from Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu start at €298.68 and take 7h 29m at their fastest.
Check dates and fares
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Flights from Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu starts at €298.68 and takes 7h 29m door to door, run by 1 operator over 2,949 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.
- 7h 29mDoor to door
- 4h 19mMoving
- €298.68 to €577.16From
- 06:16 to 07:30First and last departure
- 5Per day
- 725.5 kgCO2
First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 5, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€298.68 to €577.16 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €525.83Tue15
- about €502.82Wed16
- about €577.16Thu17
- about €553.56Fri18
- about €514.62Sat19
- about €433.20Sun20
- about €365.35Mon21
- about €308.12Tue22
- about €358.27Wed23
- about €481.58Thu24
- about €421.99Fri25
- about €368.30Sat26
- about €435.56Sun27
- about €298.68Mon28
Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.
The cheapest and the fastest on October 5, 2026
Airlines
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shanghai Airlines | €217.85 | 7h 19m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
The flight gets you into Kota Kinabalu. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
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When to book Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €289.2490 days
- €278.6260 days
- €260.3345 days
- €200.7430 days
- €217.8521 days
- €298.6814 days
- €365.357 days
- €577.163 days
- €525.831 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €200.74.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 188 percent. The most expensive point is €577.16, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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.
- €433.20Sun
- €298.68Mon
- €308.12Tue
- €358.27Wed
- €481.58Thu
- €421.99Fri
- €368.30Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
Shanghai
Air
- PVG
- SHA
Kota Kinabalu
Air
- BKI
What the journey actually looks like
- Direct or connecting
- 20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 2,949 km against 2,863 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 Hong Kong, Hangzhou, Manila, Taipei. The gap between arriving and leaving is 64 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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 06:16 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu
The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 Kota Kinabalu take?
The Flight from Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu takes 7h 29m door to door, of which 4h 19m is spent moving. The route runs 2,949 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 Kota Kinabalu cost?
The Flight from Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu starts at €298.68 for one passenger, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare is €287.47. 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 Kota Kinabalu?
1 operators run the Flight from Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu: Shanghai Airlines. Between them they file around 5 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 Kota Kinabalu use?
The Flight from Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu leaves from Shanghai SHA and arrives at Kota Kinabalu BKI. 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 Kota Kinabalu?
Fares for the Flight from Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €200.74. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 188 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Flight from Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu produce?
The Flight from Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu produces about 725.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2949 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
Where these numbers come from
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 shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Shanghai to Kota Kinabalu on September 14, 2026: 2949 km of route against 2863 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €298.68, and 7h 29m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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