Distance from Shanghai to Warsaw
The great-circle distance between Shanghai, China and Warsaw, Poland is 7,967 km (4,951 mi · 4,302 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 7,967 km · 4,951 mi · 4,302 nmi
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Warsaw
- 321° (NW)
- Initial bearing Warsaw → Shanghai
- 62° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 02 min
- Time zones
- Shanghai UTC+08:00 · Warsaw UTC+01:00 (-7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 449 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
- Warsaw
- 52.2298, 21.0118
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:44 UTC / 14:57 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.