Route · PVG → SZX
Flights from Shanghai to Shenzhen
The 1,233-kilometre hop between Shanghai Pudong and Shenzhen Bao'an clocks a typical block time of roughly one hour fifty-five minutes, making it one of China's busier domestic trunk routes and a natural alternative to the overnight train for business travellers shuttling between the Yangtze Delta and the Pearl River Delta. China Southern and Shenzhen Airlines together dominate frequencies, operating predominantly Airbus A320-family narrowbodies, while Air China adds competitive capacity and All Nippon Airways serves the route as part of its mainland China network, typically on similar single-aisle equipment. Practically speaking, arrivals into Shenzhen Bao'an connect directly to the metro's Airport Express, putting travellers in Futian or Luohu within thirty to forty minutes — a genuinely useful detail if you're continuing to Hong Kong via the high-speed rail link at Futian. Fares tend to soften during the quieter shoulder months of March and November, and midweek departures on Tuesdays and Wednesdays generally yield better availability than the heavily trafficked Friday and Sunday evening peaks.
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Cheapest dates to fly
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Airlines on this route
4 carriersThe 4 carriers we currently track on the Shanghai–Shenzhen route, from full-service flag carriers to low-cost competitors. Tap any airline for its full profile, baggage… rules, fleet context, and a live fare search pre-filtered to that carrier — useful if you're loyal to a frequent-flyer programme, want to compare onboard product on the same dates, or are weighing a cheaper one-stop against a pricier nonstop.
Flights from Shanghai to Shenzhen
Live schedule · powered by AviasalesBelow is the published weekly schedule for nonstop and one-stop services from Shanghai to Shenzhen — the actual flight numbers, departure and arrival times your… booking page will pull from. Use it to plan around departure preferences (early morning vs late evening), see which carriers fly on which weekdays, or pick a connection that lets you sleep in your own bed before a long-haul leg. Click any row to load it directly in the search.
Airport guides
Quick links into the airport profiles at both ends of the route. Each guide covers terminal layout, the airlines that base hubs at PVG and… SZX, the other routes those airports serve, and the ground-transit options most travellers wish they'd read about before landing — the practical context you only really need to know once you've booked, but want to skim before you do.