Distance from Shanghai to Vienna
Shanghai (China) and Vienna (Austria) are 8,476 km apart — that's 5,266 miles or 4,576 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
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+02:00 (-6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 384 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
- Vienna
- 48.2085, 16.3721
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:40 UTC / 18:22 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.