Distance from Nagoya to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 1,501 km (933 miles, 811 nautical miles) from Nagoya — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 1,501 km · 933 mi · 811 nmi
- Initial bearing Nagoya → Shanghai
- 257° (WSW)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Nagoya
- 69° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 2 h 25 min
- Time zones
- Nagoya UTC+09:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (-1 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 69 min — the sun rises earlier in Nagoya
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
- Nagoya
- 35.1815, 136.9064
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 20:07 UTC / 09:51 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.