Distance from Pyongyang to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Pyongyang, North Korea and Shanghai, China is 952 km (592 mi · 514 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 952 km · 592 mi · 514 nmi
- Initial bearing Pyongyang → Shanghai
- 205° (SSW)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Pyongyang
- 23° (NNE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 1 h 47 min
- Time zones
- Pyongyang UTC+09:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (-1 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 32 min — the sun rises earlier in Pyongyang
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
- Pyongyang
- 39.0339, 125.7543
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 20:44 UTC / 10:43 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.