Distance from Abidjan to Shanghai
Abidjan (Ivory Coast) and Shanghai (China) are 12,950 km apart — that's 8,047 miles or 6,992 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 12,950 km · 8,047 mi · 6,992 nmi
- Initial bearing Abidjan → Shanghai
- 51° (NE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Abidjan
- 295° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 15 h 54 min
- Time zones
- Abidjan UTC+00:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+8 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 468 min — the sun rises later in Abidjan
Flight time is a cruise-speed approximation (no routing/wind); driving distance depends on roads and is typically 20–40% longer than great-circle.
The two cities
- Abidjan
- 5.3544, -4.0017
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 06:03 UTC / 17:58 UTC
- Shanghai
- 31.2222, 121.4581
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:16 UTC / 09:02 UTC
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Distances here are straight-line (great-circle). Road routes typically run 1.2–1.4× longer — here's why, with the visual.