Distance from Seoul to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 868 km (539 miles, 469 nautical miles) from Seoul — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 868 km · 539 mi · 469 nmi
- Initial bearing Seoul → Shanghai
- 217° (SW)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Seoul
- 34° (NE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 1 h 41 min
- Time zones
- Seoul UTC+09:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (-1 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 22 min — the sun rises earlier in Seoul
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
- Seoul
- 37.5660, 126.9784
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:21 UTC / 09:30 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.