Distance from Jakarta to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 4,443 km (2,761 miles, 2,399 nautical miles) from Jakarta — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 4,443 km · 2,761 mi · 2,399 nmi
- Initial bearing Jakarta → Shanghai
- 20° (NNE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Jakarta
- 203° (SSW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 5 h 53 min
- Time zones
- Jakarta UTC+07:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+1 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 107 min — the sun rises later in Jakarta
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
- Jakarta
- -6.2146, 106.8451
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 23:03 UTC / 10:55 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.