Distance from Hamburg to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 8,522 km (5,295 miles, 4,602 nautical miles) from Hamburg — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
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+01:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 497 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
- 06:33 UTC / 15:36 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.