Distance from Benin City to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Benin City, Nigeria and Shanghai, China is 12,037 km (7,479 mi · 6,499 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 12,037 km · 7,479 mi · 6,499 nmi
- Initial bearing Benin City → Shanghai
- 54° (NE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Benin City
- 290° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 14 h 49 min
- Time zones
- Benin City UTC+01:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 430 min — the sun rises later in Benin City
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
- Benin City
- 6.3381, 5.6258
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:26 UTC / 17:18 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.