Accommodation prices — Shanghai, December 2026

200 places answered · priced 2026-11-07 14:50

Median $82 · half of all places $54 – $115 Night 31 · Offers 200 · $11 – $3 225

Median
$82
p25
$54
p75
$115
Offers
200

Prices night by night

The median and the range of the middle half of offers. Every night measured on its own.

Shanghai · December 2026 · USD
Night Median p25 p75 Offers
Tue 01.12 79 48 112 200
Wed 02.12 84 54 115 200
Thu 03.12 83 54 116 200
Fri 04.12 86 57 128 200
Sat 05.12 102 63 156 199
Sun 06.12 78 50 113 200
Mon 07.12 87 60 115 199
Tue 08.12 82 54 116 200
Wed 09.12 77 51 108 200
Thu 10.12 84 54 115 200
Fri 11.12 75 50 109 200
Sat 12.12 81 53 115 200
Sun 13.12 70 51 103 200
Mon 14.12 74 52 110 200
Tue 15.12 90 59 121 200
Wed 16.12 79 54 112 200
Thu 17.12 92 61 122 200
Fri 18.12 80 53 118 200
Sat 19.12 80 51 111 200
Sun 20.12 74 52 114 200
Mon 21.12 72 50 107 200
Tue 22.12 79 54 115 199
Wed 23.12 80 52 115 200
Thu 24.12 86 53 123 200
Fri 25.12 82 54 120 200
Sat 26.12 86 56 132 199
Sun 27.12 89 60 131 200
Mon 28.12 81 53 119 199
Tue 29.12 83 52 120 200
Wed 30.12 85 54 121 200
Thu 31.12 94 57 132 200

A night we did not measure is absent from the table — we never show a zero in place of missing data.

Proof: how we know $79 is the median on 16 December 2026

The night of 16 December 2026. The places just below and just above the middle — sorted by price.

200 places answered · priced 2026-11-07 14:50 Offers 200 / 208
98 4★ People Square and South Bund Huangpu $78
99 3★ People Square and South Bund Huangpu $78
100 4★ The Bund and North Bund $78 ← median
101 4★ Lujiazui and New Int'l Expo Center Pudong $79
102 3★ The Bund and North Bund $79
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Which day of the week is priciest?

How far each day's median sits from the whole month's.

Thursday +5% Saturday +5% Tuesday +0% Friday +0% Wednesday -2% Monday -2% Sunday -5%

Price distribution

The night of 16 December 2026.

‹ $300 194 · offers
300–600 6
600–900 0
900–1500 0
› 1500 0

How we measure this

You cannot get a wrong number out of it. A night we could not measure stays empty — never zero, never smoothed, never estimated.

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Sold-out places are counted separately

A median over 30 places and a median over 208 places are not the same claim, which is why the count sits next to every figure.

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Events describe the night, not the cause

The percentage compares that night's median with the same weekdays around it — a weekend is 5–20% above midweek by itself. We publish the number and state plainly that we are not claiming the event caused it.

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A thin measurement is not published at all

A city-month needs at least 30 places and 15 measured nights before it gets a public page. Below that we say “not enough measured yet” rather than publish a shaky number.

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“199 places answered · priced 14 Jun 2026.” That line is the most valuable sentence on the page, and it is sized like it.

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Not transaction data

These are asking prices — what places want — not what rooms sold for. We say so on the page.

Common questions

Accommodation prices — Shanghai, December 2026?

Median $82. Half of all places: $54 – $115.

Which day of the week is priciest?

Thursday +5% · Sunday -5% · How far each day's median sits from the whole month's.

Price distribution

$11 – $3 225 · Median $82 · 200 offers · 16 December 2026

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