Distance from Mogadishu to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 8,571 km (5,326 miles, 4,628 nautical miles) from Mogadishu — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,571 km · 5,326 mi · 4,628 nmi
- Initial bearing Mogadishu → Shanghai
- 58° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Mogadishu
- 264° (W)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 45 min
- Time zones
- Mogadishu UTC+03:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 344 min — the sun rises later in Mogadishu
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
- Mogadishu
- 2.0371, 45.3438
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 02:59 UTC / 15:11 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.