Distance from Mashhad to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 5,649 km (3,510 miles, 3,050 nautical miles) from Mashhad — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 5,649 km · 3,510 mi · 3,050 nmi
- Initial bearing Mashhad → Shanghai
- 77° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Mashhad
- 294° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 7 h 18 min
- Time zones
- Mashhad UTC+03:30 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+4.5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 239 min — the sun rises later in Mashhad
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
- Mashhad
- 36.2981, 59.6057
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 01:14 UTC / 15:02 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.