Distance from Onitsha to Shanghai
Flying the shortest possible route, Shanghai lies 11,945 km (7,422 miles, 6,450 nautical miles) from Onitsha — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,945 km · 7,422 mi · 6,450 nmi
- Initial bearing Onitsha → Shanghai
- 55° (NE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Onitsha
- 289° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 14 h 43 min
- Time zones
- Onitsha UTC+01:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 493 min — the sun rises later in Onitsha
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
- Onitsha
- 6.1498, 6.7857
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:29 UTC / 17:50 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.