Distance from Melbourne to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 8,055 km (5,005 miles, 4,349 nautical miles) from Melbourne — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,055 km · 5,005 mi · 4,349 nmi
- Initial bearing Melbourne → Shanghai
- 339° (NNW)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Melbourne
- 161° (SSE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 08 min
- Time zones
- Melbourne UTC+10:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (-2 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 1 min — the sun rises earlier in Melbourne
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
- Melbourne
- -37.8140, 144.9633
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:15 UTC / 07:39 UTC
- Shanghai
- 31.2222, 121.4581
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:16 UTC / 10:46 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.