waypoints.now
waypoints / 🇺🇸 US / Los Angeles – Shanghai (Pudong) Timings are not live · Documented
Route · US

Los Angeles to Shanghai (Pudong)

1 operator run this water, from 13 h 31.

Every way across

One row per operator and speed. Where a service is sold as fast and its average does not clear 45 km/h, the word appears in quotation marks — the boat is fast craft, the crossing is not.

Air China, American Airlines LAX → PVG 10415 km non-stop 346 777 788 in the air 15 h 01 est. rate not held 770 km/h average

Other ways to reach Shanghai (Pudong)

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Shanghai (Pudong) without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

Nanjing – Shanghai (Pudong) 52 min China Eastern Airlines
Wenzhou (Longwan) – Shanghai (Pudong) 58 min Air China
Hefei – Shanghai (Pudong) 1 h 02 Cargo Plus Aviation
Jeju City – Shanghai (Pudong) 1 h 08 China Eastern Airlines
Linyi (Hedong) – Shanghai (Pudong) 1 h 10 China Eastern Airlines
Qingdao (Jiaozhou) – Shanghai (Pudong) 1 h 14 Air China
Fuzhou (Changle) – Shanghai (Pudong) 1 h 16 China Eastern Airlines
Nanchang – Shanghai (Pudong) 1 h 17 Air China
Taipei (Songshan) – Shanghai (Pudong) 1 h 21 Shanghai Airlines
Taoyuan – Shanghai (Pudong) 1 h 21 Air China

And other ways to reach Los Angeles

Glendale Amtrak – Los Angeles 12 min Amtrak
Van Nuys – Los Angeles 23 min Amtrak
Burbank Amtrak – Los Angeles 27 min Amtrak
Fullerton Amtrak Station – Los Angeles 29 min Amtrak
Pomona Amtrak – Los Angeles 41 min Amtrak
Santa Barbara – Los Angeles 41 min United Airlines
Bakersfield – Los Angeles 43 min United Airlines
Palm Springs – Los Angeles 43 min United Airlines
San Diego – Los Angeles 43 min Alaska Airlines
San Luis Obispo – Los Angeles 49 min United Airlines

Where else these quays go

Also from Los Angeles

Aguascalientes · Albuquerque · Amsterdam · Anchorage · Aspen · Atlanta · Auckland · Austin · Bakersfield · Baltimore · Beijing · Belize City · Boise · Boston

Also from Shanghai (Pudong)

Abu Dhabi · Addis Ababa · Amsterdam · Anshan · Auckland · Bangkok · Baotou · Beihai · Beijing · Busan · Changchun · Changsha (Changsha) · Chengdu (Shuangliu) · Chiang Mai

Which months this runs

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for the Los Angeles–Shanghai (Pudong) crossing were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.

What we do not know

No fares. Not for this crossing, not for any crossing, not for any mode.

No departure times. No rate is held for this pair either, so we cannot say how often it runs.