Distance from Shanghai to Valencia
The great-circle distance between Shanghai, China and Valencia, Venezuela is 15,304 km (9,510 mi · 8,264 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 15,304 km · 9,510 mi · 8,264 nmi
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Valencia
- 14° (NNE)
- Initial bearing Valencia → Shanghai
- 348° (NNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 18 h 40 min
- Time zones
- Shanghai UTC+08:00 · Valencia UTC-04:00 (-12 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 787 min — the sun rises earlier in Shanghai
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
- Shanghai
- 31.2222, 121.4581
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:16 UTC / 10:46 UTC
- Valencia
- 10.1615, -68.0004
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 10:23 UTC / 22:54 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.