Route · SHA → NNG
Flights from Shanghai to Nanning
Linking Shanghai Hongqiao or Pudong with Nanning Wuxu International, this roughly 1,600-kilometre domestic hop sits squarely in the medium-haul tier of China's internal network, with block times typically running just under two and a half hours. Air China, Shanghai Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, and Shenzhen Airlines all hold slots on the route, operating mainly narrow-body Airbus A320-family jets at frequencies that reflect steady demand from business travellers and tourists heading toward Guangxi's karst landscapes and border crossings into Vietnam. A practical note worth flagging: both Shanghai airports feed this route, so confirm which terminal your itinerary uses before planning city transfers, as Hongqiao sits considerably closer to central Shanghai than Pudong. On fares, midweek departures and the shoulder months between November and February — outside Golden Week and Spring Festival windows — tend to yield meaningfully softer prices, while premium-economy seats on the fuller-service carriers can occasionally represent good value on short haul if booked early.
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Cheapest dates to fly
Live prices · powered by AviasalesThe calendar below pulls live fares from our search partner for Shanghai (SHA) → Nanning (NNG). Use the year view… to spot the cheapest week to fly, the day-of-week patterns most travellers miss, and any shoulder-season dips worth shifting your trip around. Prices refresh every few hours, so what you see is what your booking page should look like a moment later — click any date to jump straight to the fare on Aviasales.
Airlines on this route
4 carriersThe 4 carriers we currently track on the Shanghai–Nanning 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 Nanning
Live schedule · powered by AviasalesBelow is the published weekly schedule for nonstop and one-stop services from Shanghai to Nanning — 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 SHA and… NNG, 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.