Distance from Lagos to Shanghai
Lagos (Nigeria) and Shanghai (China) are 12,228 km apart — that's 7,598 miles or 6,603 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 12,228 km · 7,598 mi · 6,603 nmi
- Initial bearing Lagos → Shanghai
- 53° (NE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Lagos
- 291° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 15 h 03 min
- Time zones
- Lagos UTC+01:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 439 min — the sun rises later in Lagos
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
- Lagos
- 6.4541, 3.3947
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:35 UTC / 17:27 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.