Distance from Dakar to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Dakar, Senegal and Shanghai, China is 13,284 km (8,254 mi · 7,173 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 13,284 km · 8,254 mi · 7,173 nmi
- Initial bearing Dakar → Shanghai
- 40° (NE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Dakar
- 313° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 16 h 17 min
- Time zones
- Dakar UTC+00:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+8 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 579 min — the sun rises later in Dakar
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
- Dakar
- 14.6937, -17.4441
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 06:55 UTC / 19:37 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.