Distance from Lagos to Wuhan
Flying the shortest possible route, Wuhan lies 11,601 km (7,209 miles, 6,264 nautical miles) from Lagos — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,601 km · 7,209 mi · 6,264 nmi
- Initial bearing Lagos → Wuhan
- 56° (NE)
- Initial bearing Wuhan → Lagos
- 287° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 14 h 18 min
- Time zones
- Lagos UTC+01:00 · Wuhan UTC+08:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 444 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
- 05:36 UTC / 17:43 UTC
- Wuhan
- 30.5833, 114.2667
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:12 UTC / 10:20 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.