Distance from Shanghai to Vienna
Flying the shortest possible route, Vienna lies 8,476 km (5,266 miles, 4,576 nautical miles) from Shanghai — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,476 km · 5,266 mi · 4,576 nmi
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Vienna
- 319° (NW)
- Initial bearing Vienna → Shanghai
- 58° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 38 min
- Time zones
- Shanghai UTC+08:00 · Vienna UTC+01:00 (-7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 455 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
- Vienna
- 48.2085, 16.3721
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:51 UTC / 15:27 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.