Distance from Madrid to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 10,255 km (6,372 miles, 5,537 nautical miles) from Madrid — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 10,255 km · 6,372 mi · 5,537 nmi
- Initial bearing Madrid → Shanghai
- 44° (NE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Madrid
- 321° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 12 h 43 min
- Time zones
- Madrid UTC+01:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 517 min — the sun rises later in Madrid
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
- Madrid
- 40.4165, -3.7026
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 06:53 UTC / 17:06 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.