Distance from Bucharest to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Bucharest, Romania and Shanghai, China is 8,027 km (4,988 mi · 4,334 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,027 km · 4,988 mi · 4,334 nmi
- Initial bearing Bucharest → Shanghai
- 63° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Bucharest
- 312° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 06 min
- Time zones
- Bucharest UTC+03:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 381 min — the sun rises later in Bucharest
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
- Bucharest
- 44.4323, 26.1063
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:04 UTC / 16:14 UTC
- Shanghai
- 31.2222, 121.4581
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:43 UTC / 09:52 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.