Distance from Shanghai to Singapore
The great-circle distance between Shanghai, China and Singapore, Singapore is 3,809 km (2,367 mi · 2,057 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 3,809 km · 2,367 mi · 2,057 nmi
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Singapore
- 213° (SSW)
- Initial bearing Singapore → Shanghai
- 27° (NNE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 5 h 08 min
- Time zones
- Shanghai UTC+08:00 · Singapore UTC+08:00 (+0 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 110 min — the sun rises earlier in Shanghai
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
- Shanghai
- 31.2222, 121.4581
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:16 UTC / 10:46 UTC
- Singapore
- 1.2897, 103.8501
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 23:06 UTC / 11:16 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.