Distance from Lubumbashi to Shanghai
Lubumbashi (DR Congo) and Shanghai (China) are 11,050 km apart — that's 6,866 miles or 5,966 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,050 km · 6,866 mi · 5,966 nmi
- Initial bearing Lubumbashi → Shanghai
- 60° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Lubumbashi
- 262° (W)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 13 h 39 min
- Time zones
- Lubumbashi UTC+02:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 431 min — the sun rises later in Lubumbashi
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
- Lubumbashi
- -11.6609, 27.4794
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:27 UTC / 16:06 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.