Distance from Kinshasa to Wuhan
The great-circle distance between Kinshasa, DR Congo and Wuhan, China is 11,109 km (6,903 mi · 5,998 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,109 km · 6,903 mi · 5,998 nmi
- Initial bearing Kinshasa → Wuhan
- 60° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Wuhan → Kinshasa
- 271° (W)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 13 h 44 min
- Time zones
- Kinshasa UTC+01:00 · Wuhan UTC+08:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 351 min — the sun rises later in Kinshasa
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
- Kinshasa
- -4.3276, 15.3136
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:35 UTC / 16:52 UTC
- Wuhan
- 30.5833, 114.2667
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:44 UTC / 09:31 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.