Distance from Maputo to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Maputo, Mozambique and Shanghai, China is 11,368 km (7,063 mi · 6,138 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,368 km · 7,063 mi · 6,138 nmi
- Initial bearing Maputo → Shanghai
- 61° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Maputo
- 247° (WSW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 14 h 02 min
- Time zones
- Maputo UTC+02:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 429 min — the sun rises later in Maputo
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
- Maputo
- -25.9655, 32.5832
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:25 UTC / 15:28 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.