--- title: "Beijing to Shanghai (PEK → PVG): distance and flight time · Orbit" description: "Beijing to Shanghai is 1,099 km (683 mi) great circle, an estimated 1h 52m 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/pek-to-pvg --- PEK → PVG # Beijing to Shanghai: distance, flight time and the route it really takes Beijing Capital to Shanghai Pudong is 1,099 km of great circle — 683 mi — and an estimated 1h 52m in the air. Both ends are in Asia. **Great circle** 1,099 km 683 mi **Estimated in the air** 1h 52m block time **Furthest from equator** 40.1°N at 0% along **One lap of Earth** 2.7% of 40,075 km Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 249th longest. The Beijing to Shanghai route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe ## What the aircraft actually flies over From Beijing the path crosses China. The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 40.1°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. The heading barely moves: south-east out of Beijing, south-east into Shanghai. Over this distance the curve has too little room to bend the compass. One economy seat on it is about 163 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming. [PEK–PVG carbon footprint →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-carbon-calculator?from=PEK&to=PVG) [Map this route →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=PEK-PVG) From PEK ## Beijing Capital Beijing, China · Asia 40.1°N, 116.6°E [PEK airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/pek) [Flights to Beijing →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/beijing) 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) ## Beijing to Shanghai, asked and answered **How far is Beijing to Shanghai?** Beijing to Shanghai (PEK to PVG) is 1,099 km, or 683 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports. **How long is the flight from Beijing to Shanghai?** About 1h 52m 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 Beijing to Shanghai flight take?** The great circle passes over China. It reaches 40.1°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? Orbit logs it in two taps and draws the arc on your own globe, along with every other flight you can remember. Free for your first 15. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) ## Nearby routes [HKG → PVG Hong Kong to Shanghai 1,255 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-pvg) [ICN → PVG Seoul to Shanghai 822 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/icn-to-pvg) [HND → PVG Tokyo to Shanghai 1,738 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-pvg) [PEK → HKG Beijing to Hong Kong 1,992 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/pek-to-hkg) [MUC → PEK Munich to Beijing 7,722 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/muc-to-pek) [LHR → PEK London to Beijing 8,154 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-pek) ## 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) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/routes/pek-to-pvg for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt