Distance from Caracas to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Caracas, Venezuela and Shanghai, China is 15,293 km (9,502 mi · 8,257 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 15,293 km · 9,502 mi · 8,257 nmi
- Initial bearing Caracas → Shanghai
- 349° (N)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Caracas
- 12° (NNE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 18 h 39 min
- Time zones
- Caracas UTC-04:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+12 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 754 min — the sun rises later in Caracas
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
- Caracas
- 10.4880, -66.8792
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 10:17 UTC / 22:24 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.