Distance from Bogotá to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Bogotá, Colombia and Shanghai, China is 15,703 km (9,757 mi · 8,479 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 15,703 km · 9,757 mi · 8,479 nmi
- Initial bearing Bogotá → Shanghai
- 339° (NNW)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Bogotá
- 25° (NNE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 19 h 08 min
- Time zones
- Bogotá UTC-05:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+13 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 818 min — the sun rises later in Bogotá
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
- Bogotá
- 4.6097, -74.0817
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 10:54 UTC / 23:12 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.