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title: "Flights to Shanghai: how far it is, and from where · Orbit"
description: "Great circle distances and estimated flying times to Shanghai, China, from 7 cities — 822 km at the nearest, 10,415 km at the furthest. Distance and geography, not fares."
url: https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/shanghai
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China · Asia

# Flights to Shanghai: how far it is, and from where

Shanghai sits at 31.1°N, 121.8°E, served by Shanghai Pudong (PVG). Below are 7 routes into it, with the great circle distance and an estimated flying time for each.

This page is about distance and geography — there are no fares or schedules on it. For tickets, use a booking site; for how far it actually is and what you fly over to get there, you’re in the right place.

**Routes here**
7
in the catalogue

**Nearest**
822 km
from Seoul

**Furthest**
10,415 km
from Los Angeles

**Airports**
1
PVG

## How far Shanghai is from everywhere else

Great circle distance between the airports, and an estimate of the time in the air. Every row links to the route in full.

| From                                                        |     | Distance  | Estimated | Direction                        |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- | -------------------------------- |
| [Seoul](https://orbitflights.app/routes/icn-to-pvg)         | ICN | 822 km    | 1h 31m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Beijing](https://orbitflights.app/routes/pek-to-pvg)       | PEK | 1,099 km  | 1h 52m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Hong Kong](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-pvg)     | HKG | 1,255 km  | 2h 04m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-pvg)         | HND | 1,738 km  | 2h 40m    | westbound — the easier direction |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-pvg)        | LHR | 9,241 km  | 11h 59m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [San Francisco](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-pvg) | SFO | 9,877 km  | 12h 47m   | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-pvg)   | LAX | 10,415 km | 13h 27m   | westbound — the easier direction |

## What Shanghai adds to a map

Shanghai puts a pin in China, and Asia is one of the seven continents — the coarsest and most useful measure of how much of the world a flight map actually covers. The furthest route here, from Los Angeles, is 10,415 km: 26.0% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

[What actually counts as a country visited →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/counting-countries)

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