Distance from Shanghai to Tashkent
Flying the shortest possible route, Tashkent lies 4,743 km (2,947 miles, 2,561 nautical miles) from Shanghai — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 4,743 km · 2,947 mi · 2,561 nmi
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Tashkent
- 299° (WNW)
- Initial bearing Tashkent → Shanghai
- 86° (E)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 6 h 14 min
- Time zones
- Shanghai UTC+08:00 · Tashkent UTC+05:00 (-3 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 227 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
- 22:16 UTC / 09:02 UTC
- Tashkent
- 41.2647, 69.2163
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 02:03 UTC / 12:12 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.