Distance from Belgrade to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Belgrade, Serbia and Shanghai, China is 8,400 km (5,220 mi · 4,536 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
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
- 377 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
- 03:32 UTC / 17:57 UTC
- Shanghai
- 31.2222, 121.4581
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:16 UTC / 10:46 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.