Distance from Barcelona to Beijing
Flying the shortest possible route, Beijing lies 8,803 km (5,470 miles, 4,753 nautical miles) from Barcelona — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,803 km · 5,470 mi · 4,753 nmi
- Initial bearing Barcelona → Beijing
- 45° (NE)
- Initial bearing Beijing → Barcelona
- 316° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 11 h 01 min
- Time zones
- Barcelona UTC+02:00 · Beijing UTC+08:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 454 min — the sun rises later in Barcelona
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
- Barcelona
- 41.3888, 2.1590
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:54 UTC / 19:02 UTC
- Beijing
- 39.9075, 116.3972
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:20 UTC / 11:22 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.