Shanghai to Tijuana flight

Flights from Shanghai to Tijuana start at €1,068.63 and take 17h 26m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Shanghai to Tijuana starts at €1,068.63 and takes 17h 26m door to door, run by 1 operator over 10,957 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 17h 26mDoor to door
  • 14h 16mMoving
  • €1,068.63From
  • 1621.6 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€882.19
  1. Spring Airlines SA190007:302h 50m10:20Shanghai SHATokyo NRT
  2. AeroMéxico AM766611:5113h 21m01:12Tokyo HNDTijuana TIJ

Changes at Tokyo, with 91 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 20h 52mCO2 1819.6 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€887.50
  1. AeroMéxico AM977406:5214h 16m21:08Shanghai PVGTijuana TIJ

Door to door 17h 26mCO2 1621.6 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
AeroMéxico€887.5017h 26m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • AeroMéxico

That is the traveling done. What happens after you walk out into Tijuana is not something we sell.

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Booking window

When to book Shanghai to Tijuana

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €1,098.1390 days
  2. €779.5360 days
  3. €762.4245 days
  4. €826.1430 days
  5. €1,011.4021 days
  6. €1,308.1714 days
  7. €1,553.617 days
  8. €1,753.033 days
  9. €2,146.561 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €762.42.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 182 percent. The most expensive point is €2,146.56, 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.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €1,519.39Sun
  2. €1,216.72Mon
  3. €1,101.67Tue
  4. €1,068.63Wed
  5. €1,737.69Thu
  6. €1,308.17Fri
  7. €1,650.37Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Shanghai

Air
  • PVG
  • SHA

Tijuana

Air
  • TIJ
The journey

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
50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 10,957 km against 10,637 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 Tokyo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 91 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 11 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 06:52 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Shanghai to Tijuana

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 Tijuana take?

The Flight from Shanghai to Tijuana takes 17h 26m door to door, of which 14h 16m is spent moving. The route runs 10,957 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 Tijuana cost?

The Flight from Shanghai to Tijuana starts at €1,068.63 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €884.85. 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 Tijuana?

1 operators run the Flight from Shanghai to Tijuana: AeroMéxico. Between them they file around 2 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 Tijuana use?

The Flight from Shanghai to Tijuana leaves from Shanghai PVG and arrives at Tijuana TIJ. 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 Tijuana?

Fares for the Flight from Shanghai to Tijuana bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €762.42. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 182 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Shanghai to Tijuana produce?

The Flight from Shanghai to Tijuana produces about 1621.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 10957 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, 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 modeled number pass for a filed one.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Shanghai to Tijuana on September 11, 2026: 10957 km of route against 10637 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €1,068.63, and 17h 26m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

Tijuana is large, and the road in from TIJ can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

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Getting from TIJ into Tijuana?

Settled in advance, so the ride into Tijuana costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

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