Distance from Brasília to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 17,988 km (11,177 miles, 9,713 nautical miles) from Brasília — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 17,988 km · 11,177 mi · 9,713 nmi
- Initial bearing Brasília → Shanghai
- 30° (NNE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Brasília
- 325° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 21 h 49 min
- Time zones
- Brasília UTC-03:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+11 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 738 min — the sun rises later in Brasília
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
- Brasília
- -15.7797, -47.9297
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 09:33 UTC / 21:03 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.