Distance from Dar es Salaam to Shanghai
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Shanghai (China) are 9,665 km apart — that's 6,005 miles or 5,218 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 9,665 km · 6,005 mi · 5,218 nmi
- Initial bearing Dar es Salaam → Shanghai
- 58° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Dar es Salaam
- 260° (W)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 12 h 02 min
- Time zones
- Dar es Salaam UTC+03:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 378 min — the sun rises later in Dar es Salaam
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
- Dar es Salaam
- -6.8235, 39.2695
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:34 UTC / 15:25 UTC
- Shanghai
- 31.2222, 121.4581
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:16 UTC / 10:46 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.