Distance from Asunción to Shanghai
Asunción (Paraguay) and Shanghai (China) are 19,349 km apart — that's 12,023 miles or 10,448 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 19,349 km · 12,023 mi · 10,448 nmi
- Initial bearing Asunción → Shanghai
- 7° (N)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Asunción
- 352° (N)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 23 h 25 min
- Time zones
- Asunción UTC-03:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+11 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 717 min — the sun rises later in Asunción
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
- Asunción
- -25.2865, -57.6470
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 09:40 UTC / 21:48 UTC
- Shanghai
- 31.2222, 121.4581
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:43 UTC / 09:52 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.