Distance from Guangzhou to Kinshasa
Flying the shortest possible route, Kinshasa lies 11,007 km (6,840 miles, 5,943 nautical miles) from Guangzhou — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,007 km · 6,840 mi · 5,943 nmi
- Initial bearing Guangzhou → Kinshasa
- 269° (W)
- Initial bearing Kinshasa → Guangzhou
- 67° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 13 h 36 min
- Time zones
- Guangzhou UTC+08:00 · Kinshasa UTC+01:00 (-7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 392 min — the sun rises earlier in Guangzhou
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
- Guangzhou
- 23.1167, 113.2500
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:17 UTC / 10:24 UTC
- Kinshasa
- -4.3276, 15.3136
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:49 UTC / 16:55 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.