Distance from Daejeon to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Daejeon, South Korea and Shanghai, China is 790 km (491 mi · 427 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 790 km · 491 mi · 427 nmi
- Initial bearing Daejeon → Shanghai
- 226° (SW)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Daejeon
- 42° (NE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 1 h 35 min
- Time zones
- Daejeon UTC+09:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (-1 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 24 min — the sun rises earlier in Daejeon
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
- Daejeon
- 36.3491, 127.3849
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:19 UTC / 09:28 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.