There are 7 ways to get from Shanghai to Glasgow by plane, bus, or train
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Fly Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Edinburgh Airport, bus
best- Fly from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane SHA - EDI
- Take the bus from Terminal to Buchanan Bus Stationbus
19h 1m£197–565Fly Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Glasgow Airport
cheapest- Fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Glasgow Airport (GLA)plane PVG - GLA
18h 21m£178–501Fly Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Edinburgh Airport, bus
- Fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane PVG - EDI
- Take the bus from Terminal to Buchanan Bus Stationbus
18h 38m£182–501Fly Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Manchester Airport, train
- Fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Manchester Airport (MAN)plane PVG - MAN
- Take the train from Manchester Airport to Lancastertrain
- Take the train from Lancaster to Glasgow Centraltrain
18h 57m£387–811Fly Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Glasgow Airport
- Fly from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA) to Glasgow Airport (GLA)plane SHA - GLA
19h 44m£183–555Fly Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Aberdeen Airport, train
- Fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Aberdeen Airport (ABZ)plane PVG - ABZ
- Take the train from Aberdeen to Glasgow Queen Streettrain
21h 54m£304–843Train to Sunan Shuofang International Airport, fly to Edinburgh Airport, bus
- Take the train from Shanghai station to Wuxitrain
- Fly from Sunan Shuofang International Airport (WUX) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane WUX - EDI
- Take the bus from Terminal to Buchanan Bus Stationbus
20h 34m£231–678
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Shanghai to Glasgow is to fly which costs £170 - £500 and takes 18h 21m.
The fastest way to get from Shanghai to Glasgow is to fly which takes 18h 21m and costs £170 - £500.
The distance between Shanghai and Glasgow is 5677 miles.
It takes approximately 19h 1m to get from Shanghai to Glasgow, including transfers.
Glasgow is 7h behind Shanghai. It is currently 9:26 AM in Shanghai and 2:26 AM in Glasgow.
There are 1563+ hotels available in Glasgow.
What companies run services between Shanghai, China and Glasgow, Scotland?
KLM, Air China, and four other airlines fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Glasgow Airport (GLA) twice daily.
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Glasgow Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 30m
- When
- Friday and Monday
- Estimated price
- £170–490
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £190–490
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £170–480
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Geneva
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 45m
- When
- Friday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- £190–500
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Beijing Capital, London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 55m
- When
- Tuesday and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- £180–550
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Beijing Capital, Berlin Brandenburg
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 20m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £200–600
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £230–700
- Website
- hainanairlines.com
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Beijing Capital
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 37m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £190–550
Flights from Sunan Shuofang International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Beijing Capital
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £220–650
- Website
- finnair.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 22m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £170–650
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Manchester Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 30m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £170–650
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Xi An, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £340–750
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Wuhan, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 5m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £200–700
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £180–490
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Xi An, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £340–750
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Wuhan, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 5m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £200–700
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 55m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £270–700
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £250–650
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £200–700
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Beijing Daxing, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £190–650
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 55m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £280–1,000
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 5m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £180–470
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 25m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £180–470
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Beijing Capital, Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 30m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £200–600
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £230–750
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Manchester Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £220–750
- Website
- csair.com
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Wuhan, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 55m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £200–700
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Xi An, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £340–750
- Website
- loganair.co.uk
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 55m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £270–700
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Dublin
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £250–650
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Geneva
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 30m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £190–500
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 40m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £190–550
- Website
- juneyaoair.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 12h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £180–480
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- [email protected]
- Website
- tpexpress.co.uk
Train from Manchester Airport to Lancaster
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £22–40
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
Train from Lancaster to Glasgow Central
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £60–110
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 800 200 6060
- [email protected]
- Website
- northernrailway.co.uk
Train from Manchester Airport to Lancaster
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £24–45
- Website
- https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 (0)345 528 0253
- Website
- avantiwestcoast.co.uk
Train from Lancaster to Glasgow Central
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 4m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £60–100
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 (0)344 811 0141
- Website
- scotrail.co.uk
Train from Aberdeen to Glasgow Queen Street
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 37m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £65–130
- Website
- https://www.scotrail.co.uk/
Train from Shanghai station to Wuxi
- 2nd Class Seat
- £6–8
- 1st Class Seat
- £10–12
- Business Class Seat
- £14–21
Train from Shanghai station to Wuxi
- Hard Seat
- £5–8
- Hard Sleeper
- £5–9
- Soft Sleeper
- £13–19
Train from Shanghai station to Wuxi
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- £6–12
- Schedules at
- chinahighlights.com
- Adult - 2nd Class
- £6–10
- Adult - 1st Class
- £8–12
Train from Shanghai station to Wuxi
- Hard Seat
- £2–4
- Hard sleeper
- £5–8
- Soft sleeper
- £9–12
- Phone
- 0141 352 4444
- [email protected]
- Website
- citylink.co.uk
Bus from Terminal to Buchanan Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 10 minutes
- Estimated price
- £7–15
- Website
- https://www.citylink.co.uk/
- Single
- £7–15
Bus from Terminal to Buchanan Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 10 minutes
- Estimated price
- £7–15
- Website
- https://www.citylink.co.uk/
- Single
- £7–15
Bus from Terminal to Buchanan Bus Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 10 minutes
- Estimated price
- £7–15
- Website
- https://www.citylink.co.uk/
- Single
- £7–15
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