Distance from Hamburg to Shanghai
Hamburg (Germany) and Shanghai (China) are 8,522 km apart — that's 5,295 miles or 4,602 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,522 km · 5,295 mi · 4,602 nmi
- Initial bearing Hamburg → Shanghai
- 55° (NE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Hamburg
- 325° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 41 min
- Time zones
- Hamburg UTC+02:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 444 min — the sun rises later in Hamburg
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
- Hamburg
- 53.5507, 9.9930
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:08 UTC / 17:19 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.