Distance from Belgrade to Shanghai
Belgrade (Serbia) and Shanghai (China) are 8,400 km apart — that's 5,220 miles or 4,536 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,400 km · 5,220 mi · 4,536 nmi
- Initial bearing Belgrade → Shanghai
- 60° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Belgrade
- 314° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 32 min
- Time zones
- Belgrade UTC+02:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 403 min — the sun rises later in Belgrade
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
- Belgrade
- 44.8040, 20.4651
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:27 UTC / 16:36 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.