Distance from Durban to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 11,707 km (7,274 miles, 6,321 nautical miles) from Durban — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,707 km · 7,274 mi · 6,321 nmi
- Initial bearing Durban → Shanghai
- 62° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Durban
- 244° (WSW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 14 h 26 min
- Time zones
- Durban UTC+02:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 281 min — the sun rises later in Durban
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
- Durban
- -29.8579, 31.0292
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 02:57 UTC / 16:24 UTC
- Shanghai
- 31.2222, 121.4581
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:16 UTC / 09:02 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.