Distance from Budapest to Shanghai
Budapest (Hungary) and Shanghai (China) are 8,346 km apart — that's 5,186 miles or 4,506 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,346 km · 5,186 mi · 4,506 nmi
- Initial bearing Budapest → Shanghai
- 60° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Budapest
- 317° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 29 min
- Time zones
- Budapest UTC+01:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 443 min — the sun rises later in Budapest
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
- Budapest
- 47.4984, 19.0404
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:38 UTC / 15:18 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.