Distance from Ibadan to Shanghai
Ibadan (Nigeria) and Shanghai (China) are 12,121 km apart — that's 7,532 miles or 6,545 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 12,121 km · 7,532 mi · 6,545 nmi
- Initial bearing Ibadan → Shanghai
- 53° (NE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Ibadan
- 292° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 14 h 55 min
- Time zones
- Ibadan UTC+01:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 503 min — the sun rises later in Ibadan
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
- Ibadan
- 7.3776, 3.9059
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:39 UTC / 18:03 UTC
- Shanghai
- 31.2222, 121.4581
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:16 UTC / 10:46 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.