Distance from Salvador to Shanghai
Salvador (Brazil) and Shanghai (China) are 17,130 km apart — that's 10,644 miles or 9,249 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
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
- 584 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
- 07:59 UTC / 20:38 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.