Distance from Shanghai to Surabaya
The great-circle distance between Shanghai, China and Surabaya, Indonesia is 4,377 km (2,720 mi · 2,363 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 4,377 km · 2,720 mi · 2,363 nmi
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Surabaya
- 194° (SSW)
- Initial bearing Surabaya → Shanghai
- 12° (NNE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 5 h 48 min
- Time zones
- Shanghai UTC+08:00 · Surabaya UTC+07:00 (-1 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 36 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
- 21:43 UTC / 09:52 UTC
- Surabaya
- -7.2492, 112.7508
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:19 UTC / 10:26 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.