Distance from Pretoria to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 11,743 km (7,297 miles, 6,341 nautical miles) from Pretoria — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,743 km · 7,297 mi · 6,341 nmi
- Initial bearing Pretoria → Shanghai
- 62° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Pretoria
- 249° (WSW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 14 h 28 min
- Time zones
- Pretoria UTC+02:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 446 min — the sun rises later in Pretoria
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
- Pretoria
- -25.7449, 28.1878
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:42 UTC / 15:45 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.