Distance from Kobe to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Kobe, Japan and Shanghai, China is 1,336 km (830 mi · 721 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 1,336 km · 830 mi · 721 nmi
- Initial bearing Kobe → Shanghai
- 257° (WSW)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Kobe
- 70° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 2 h 14 min
- Time zones
- Kobe UTC+09:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (-1 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 49 min — the sun rises earlier in Kobe
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
- Kobe
- 34.6913, 135.1830
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:27 UTC / 08:01 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.