Distance from Berlin to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 8,397 km (5,217 miles, 4,534 nautical miles) from Berlin — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,397 km · 5,217 mi · 4,534 nmi
- Initial bearing Berlin → Shanghai
- 57° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Berlin
- 323° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 32 min
- Time zones
- Berlin UTC+02:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 382 min — the sun rises later in Berlin
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
- Berlin
- 52.5244, 13.4105
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:38 UTC / 18:48 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.