Distance from Port Harcourt to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Port Harcourt, Nigeria and Shanghai, China is 12,012 km (7,464 mi · 6,486 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 12,012 km · 7,464 mi · 6,486 nmi
- Initial bearing Port Harcourt → Shanghai
- 55° (NE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Port Harcourt
- 287° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 14 h 47 min
- Time zones
- Port Harcourt UTC+01:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 423 min — the sun rises later in Port Harcourt
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
- Port Harcourt
- 4.7774, 7.0134
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:19 UTC / 17:14 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.