Distance from Kazan to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 6,108 km (3,795 miles, 3,298 nautical miles) from Kazan — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 6,108 km · 3,795 mi · 3,298 nmi
- Initial bearing Kazan → Shanghai
- 85° (E)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Kazan
- 319° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 7 h 51 min
- Time zones
- Kazan UTC+03:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 287 min — the sun rises later in Kazan
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
- Kazan
- 55.7887, 49.1221
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 02:31 UTC / 14:43 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.