Distance from Shanghai to Tokyo
The great-circle distance between Shanghai, China and Tokyo, Japan is 1,760 km (1,094 mi · 950 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 1,760 km · 1,094 mi · 950 nmi
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Tokyo
- 69° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Tokyo → Shanghai
- 259° (W)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 2 h 44 min
- Time zones
- Shanghai UTC+08:00 · Tokyo UTC+09:00 (+1 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 81 min — the sun rises later 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
- Tokyo
- 35.6895, 139.6917
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 19:55 UTC / 09:41 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.