Shanghai to Hamburg sea distance

Shanghai, China (CNSHA) to Hamburg, Germany (DEHAM) is 10,926 nautical miles (20,234 km) by sea, via the Suez Canal.

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Distance and sailing time

Time at sea only, excluding port calls, canal waiting and weather.

Passages

• Strait of Malacca
• Bab-el-Mandeb
• Suez Canal
• Strait of Gibraltar
• Dover Strait

With Suez closed

Avoiding the Suez Canal, the shortest route is 13,929 nm (25,796 km) via the Panama Canal: 3,003 nm (27%) longer, or about 8.9 extra days at 14 knots.

Emissions estimate

Rough estimate for a post-Panamax container ship, not a certified figure. ECA share uses bounding boxes.

Compute it yourself

import { seaRoute } from 'searoute-ts';
import 'searoute-ts/ports';

const route = seaRoute('CNSHA', 'DEHAM', { vesselDraftMeters: 14 });
console.log(route.properties.length); // 10,926 nm

npm install searoute-ts · GitHub · npm

Related routes

Reverse direction: Hamburg to Shanghai · 10,926 nm

More from Shanghai

• Shanghai to Busan · 460 nm
• Shanghai to Yokohama · 1,024 nm
• Shanghai to Singapore · 2,226 nm
• Shanghai to Port Klang (Pelabuhan Klang) · 2,415 nm
• Shanghai to Colombo · 3,860 nm
• Shanghai to Sydney · 4,607 nm

More to Hamburg

• Piraeus to Hamburg · 3,192 nm
• New York to Hamburg · 3,510 nm
• Savannah to Hamburg · 4,028 nm
• Jeddah to Hamburg · 4,362 nm
• Houston to Hamburg · 5,304 nm
• Santos to Hamburg · 5,780 nm

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