Distance from Paris to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 9,263 km (5,756 miles, 5,002 nautical miles) from Paris — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 9,263 km · 5,756 mi · 5,002 nmi
- Initial bearing Paris → Shanghai
- 49° (NE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Paris
- 325° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 11 h 33 min
- Time zones
- Paris UTC+01:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 513 min — the sun rises later in Paris
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
- Paris
- 48.8534, 2.3488
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 06:49 UTC / 16:21 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.