Distance from Ra’s Bayrūt to Shanghai
The great-circle distance between Ra’s Bayrūt, Lebanon and Shanghai, China is 7,805 km (4,850 mi · 4,214 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 7,805 km · 4,850 mi · 4,214 nmi
- Initial bearing Ra’s Bayrūt → Shanghai
- 65° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Ra’s Bayrūt
- 298° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 9 h 50 min
- Time zones
- Ra’s Bayrūt UTC+03:00 · Shanghai UTC+08:00 (+5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 339 min — the sun rises later in Ra’s Bayrūt
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
- Ra’s Bayrūt
- 33.9000, 35.4833
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 02:55 UTC / 16:34 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.