There are 7 ways to get from Shanghai to Scotland by plane or train
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Fly Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Edinburgh Airport
best- Fly from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane SHA - EDI
20h 5m£170–560Fly Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Glasgow Airport
cheapest- Fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Glasgow Airport (GLA)plane PVG - GLA
19h 13m£145–426Fly Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Aberdeen Airport
- Fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Aberdeen Airport (ABZ)plane PVG - ABZ
19h 11m£195–606Fly Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Newcastle, train
- Fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Newcastle (NCL)plane PVG - NCL
- Take the train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
19h 44m£171–560Fly Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Edinburgh Airport
- Fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane PVG - EDI
18h 27m£145–416Fly 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 Prestontrain
- Take the train from Preston to Glasgow Centraltrain
19h 23m£295–996Fly Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport
- Fly from Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) to Inverness Dalcross Airport (INV)plane PVG - INV
22h 51m£202–616
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Shanghai to Scotland is to fly which costs £140 - £430 and takes 19h 13m.
The fastest way to get from Shanghai to Scotland is to fly which takes 18h 27m and costs £140 - £420.
The distance between Shanghai and Scotland is 5644 miles.
It takes approximately 20h 5m to get from Shanghai to Scotland, including transfers.
Scotland is 8h behind Shanghai. It is currently 9:20 PM in Shanghai and 1:20 PM in Scotland.
There are 925+ hotels available in Scotland.
What companies run services between Shanghai, China and Scotland?
Hainan, Air China, and two other airlines fly from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) once daily.
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Glasgow Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 27m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £140–450
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £190–600
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Newcastle via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 25m
- When
- Wednesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- £160–480
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Newcastle via Geneva
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 55m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £170–500
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 7m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £140–450
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Geneva
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £150–440
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £140–460
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £190–600
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £200–850
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £200–600
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Newcastle via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 18h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £170–700
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 30h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £200–850
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £200–600
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Beijing Capital, Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 45m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £180–650
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £160–600
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £210–800
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Newcastle via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £170–700
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 33h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £210–800
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Brussels, Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 19h
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- £190–650
- Website
- en.ceair.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £160–600
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £210–800
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Newcastle via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £160–700
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Newcastle via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £170–700
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 20m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £140–430
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 40m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £180–750
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £140–420
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Manchester Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 40m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £180–750
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Manchester Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £180–700
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £160–600
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £210–800
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Newcastle via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £180–700
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 33h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £210–800
- Website
- loganair.co.uk
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Aberdeen Airport via Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £200–600
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £200–600
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Inverness Dalcross Airport via Beijing Capital, Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 45m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £180–650
- Website
- hainanairlines.com
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Beijing Capital
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 22m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £160–550
- Website
- csair.com
Flights from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Beijing Daxing, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £170–600
- Website
- jet2.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Geneva
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 10m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £150–450
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- £130–400
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Brussels
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 25m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- £150–450
- Website
- juneyaoair.com
Flights from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Manchester Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £150–430
- Phone
- +44 345 722 5333
- customers@lner.co.uk
- Website
- lner.co.uk
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £20–40
- Website
- https://www.lner.co.uk/
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £20–40
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 600 1671
- tpecustomer.relations@tpexpress.co.uk
- Website
- tpexpress.co.uk
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 44m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- £4–17
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
Train from Manchester Airport to Preston
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £10–28
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
Train from Preston to Glasgow Central
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- £17–95
- Website
- https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 330 060 0500
- enquiry@sleeper.scot
- Website
- sleeper.scot
Train from Newcastle to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- £60–80
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- £210–230
- Sleeper Seat
- £60–80
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- £240–290
Train from Preston to Glasgow Central
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 28m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- £60–80
- Website
- https://www.sleeper.scot/
- Sleeper Berth Classic
- £210–230
- Sleeper Seat
- £60–80
- Sleeper Berth Club Solo
- £260–300
- Phone
- +44 800 200 6060
- enquiries@northernrailway.co.uk
- Website
- northernrailway.co.uk
Train from Manchester Airport to Preston
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- £4–30
- Website
- https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/
- Phone
- +44 345 528 0253
- Website
- avantiwestcoast.co.uk
Train from Preston to Glasgow Central
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £16–110
- Website
- https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/
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