Distance from Bursa to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Bursa, Türkiye and Shanghai, China is 8,018 km (4,982 mi · 4,329 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,018 km · 4,982 mi · 4,329 nmi
- Initial bearing Bursa → Shanghai
- 64° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Bursa
- 307° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 05 min
- Time zones
- Bursa UTC+03:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 353 min — the sun rises later in Bursa
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
- Bursa
- 40.1956, 29.0601
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:09 UTC / 17:12 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.