Distance from Shanghai to Yaoundé
Flying the shortest possible route, Yaoundé lies 11,657 km (7,243 miles, 6,294 nautical miles) from Shanghai — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,657 km · 7,243 mi · 6,294 nmi
- Initial bearing Shanghai → Yaoundé
- 284° (WNW)
- Initial bearing Yaoundé → Shanghai
- 56° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 14 h 22 min
- Time zones
- Shanghai UTC+08:00 · Yaoundé UTC+01:00 (-7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 477 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
- Yaoundé
- 3.8667, 11.5167
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:12 UTC / 17:28 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.