Distance from Salvador to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Salvador, Brazil and Shanghai, China is 17,130 km (10,644 mi · 9,249 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 17,130 km · 10,644 mi · 9,249 nmi
- Initial bearing Salvador → Shanghai
- 42° (NE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Salvador
- 310° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 20 h 49 min
- Time zones
- Salvador UTC-03:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+11 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 640 min — the sun rises later in Salvador
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
- Salvador
- -12.9756, -38.4910
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 08:24 UTC / 20:31 UTC
- Shanghai
- 31.2222, 121.4581
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:43 UTC / 09:52 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.