Distance from Beirut to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 7,803 km (4,849 miles, 4,213 nautical miles) from Beirut — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 7,803 km · 4,849 mi · 4,213 nmi
- Initial bearing Beirut → Shanghai
- 65° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Beirut
- 298° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 9 h 50 min
- Time zones
- Beirut UTC+02:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 348 min — the sun rises later in Beirut
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
- Beirut
- 33.8933, 35.5016
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:04 UTC / 14:41 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.