Distance from Chengdu to São Paulo
Flying the shortest possible route, São Paulo lies 17,019 km (10,575 miles, 9,189 nautical miles) from Chengdu — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 17,019 km · 10,575 mi · 9,189 nmi
- Initial bearing Chengdu → São Paulo
- 278° (W)
- Initial bearing São Paulo → Chengdu
- 68° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 20 h 41 min
- Time zones
- Chengdu UTC+08:00 · São Paulo UTC-03:00 (-11 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 533 min — the sun rises earlier in Chengdu
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
- Chengdu
- 30.6667, 104.0667
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 23:24 UTC / 10:12 UTC
- São Paulo
- -23.5475, -46.6361
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 08:18 UTC / 21:25 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.