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title: "Tokyo to Shanghai (HND → PVG): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Tokyo to Shanghai is 1,738 km (1,080 mi) great circle, an estimated 2h 40m in the air. The route, what it flies over, and why the short way is not the straight line on a map."
url: https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-pvg
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HND → PVG

# Tokyo to Shanghai: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Tokyo Haneda to Shanghai Pudong is 1,738 km of great circle — 1,080 mi — and an estimated 2h 40m in the air. Both ends are in Asia.

**Great circle**
1,738 km
1,080 mi

**Estimated in the air**
2h 40m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
35.5°N
at 0% along

**One lap of Earth**
4.3%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 209th longest.

The Tokyo to Shanghai route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Tokyo the path crosses Japan, then 838 km of open water.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 35.5°N, 0% of the way along.

Holding a single compass bearing the whole way would cover almost exactly the same ground, so on this route the flat map and the globe agree.

Leaving Tokyo the aircraft points west (259°); it arrives into Shanghai heading west (249°). That is 10° of drift without a single turn — the compass moves because the path is a curve on a sphere, not because the aircraft does.

One economy seat on it is about 258 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

[HND–PVG carbon footprint →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-carbon-calculator?from=HND&to=PVG) [Map this route →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=HND-PVG)

From

HND

## Tokyo Haneda

Tokyo, Japan · Asia

35.5°N, 139.8°E

[HND airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/hnd) [Flights to Tokyo →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/tokyo)

To

PVG

## Shanghai Pudong

Shanghai, China · Asia

31.1°N, 121.8°E

[PVG airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/pvg) [Flights to Shanghai →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/shanghai)

## Tokyo to Shanghai, asked and answered

**How far is Tokyo to Shanghai?**
Tokyo to Shanghai (HND to PVG) is 1,738 km, or 1,080 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Tokyo to Shanghai?**
About 2h 40m in the air. That is an estimate from the distance at a typical airliner block speed, plus half an hour for taxi, climb and descent; published schedules vary with winds and routing.

**What route does a Tokyo to Shanghai flight take?**
The great circle passes over Japan, then 838 km of open water. It reaches 35.5°N at its furthest from the equator.

## Where these numbers come from

Distances are computed from the two airports’ own coordinates, not looked up from published routes. Times are estimates, not schedules.

[Why the shortest path is a curve →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/great-circle-routes-explained)

## Flown this one?

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[Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit)

## Nearby routes

[HND → OKA Tokyo to Naha 1,555 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-oka) [HND → TPE Tokyo to Taipei 2,122 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-tpe) [HKG → PVG Hong Kong to Shanghai 1,255 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-pvg) [HND → ICN Tokyo to Seoul 1,210 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-icn) [PEK → PVG Beijing to Shanghai 1,099 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/pek-to-pvg) [ICN → PVG Seoul to Shanghai 822 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/icn-to-pvg)

## Further reading

[How many miles do you have to fly around the world?](https://orbitflights.app/blog/how-many-miles-to-fly-around-the-world) [What is on the exact opposite side of the world?](https://orbitflights.app/blog/opposite-side-of-the-world) [What's actually worth counting in a flight log](https://orbitflights.app/blog/what-is-worth-counting-in-a-flight-log)

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