Distance from Rome to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 9,116 km (5,665 miles, 4,922 nautical miles) from Rome — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 9,116 km · 5,665 mi · 4,922 nmi
- Initial bearing Rome → Shanghai
- 55° (NE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Rome
- 315° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 11 h 23 min
- Time zones
- Rome UTC+01:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 456 min — the sun rises later in Rome
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
- Rome
- 41.8919, 12.5113
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:51 UTC / 15:58 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.