Distance from Dar es Salaam to Shenzhen
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Shenzhen (China) are 8,758 km apart — that's 5,442 miles or 4,729 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,758 km · 5,442 mi · 4,729 nmi
- Initial bearing Dar es Salaam → Shenzhen
- 65° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shenzhen → Dar es Salaam
- 258° (WSW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 58 min
- Time zones
- Dar es Salaam UTC+03:00 · Shenzhen UTC+08:00 (+5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 263 min — the sun rises later in Dar es Salaam
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
- Dar es Salaam
- -6.8235, 39.2695
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 02:56 UTC / 15:19 UTC
- Shenzhen
- 22.5455, 114.0683
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:33 UTC / 09:44 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.