Distance from Ouagadougou to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 12,244 km (7,608 miles, 6,611 nautical miles) from Ouagadougou — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 12,244 km · 7,608 mi · 6,611 nmi
- Initial bearing Ouagadougou → Shanghai
- 50° (NE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Ouagadougou
- 299° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 15 h 04 min
- Time zones
- Ouagadougou UTC+00:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+8 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 466 min — the sun rises later in Ouagadougou
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
- Ouagadougou
- 12.3657, -1.5339
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 06:02 UTC / 17:39 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.