Distance from Kharkiv to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Kharkiv, Ukraine and Shanghai, China is 7,084 km (4,402 mi · 3,825 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 7,084 km · 4,402 mi · 3,825 nmi
- Initial bearing Kharkiv → Shanghai
- 72° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Kharkiv
- 314° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 9 h 00 min
- Time zones
- Kharkiv UTC+02:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 381 min — the sun rises later in Kharkiv
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
- Kharkiv
- 49.9818, 36.2548
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:36 UTC / 14:03 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.