Distance from Khartoum to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Khartoum, Sudan and Shanghai, China is 9,020 km (5,605 mi · 4,870 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 9,020 km · 5,605 mi · 4,870 nmi
- Initial bearing Khartoum → Shanghai
- 60° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Khartoum
- 283° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 11 h 16 min
- Time zones
- Khartoum UTC+02:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 378 min — the sun rises later in Khartoum
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
- Khartoum
- 15.5518, 32.5324
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:34 UTC / 16:19 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.