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YVR Vancouver ⇄ PVG Shanghai

Vancouver International Airport (Canada) and Shanghai Pudong International Airport (China): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance9,016 km5,602 mi4,868 nautical miles
YVR → PVG12 hestimated block time
PVG → YVR10 h 40 minestimated block time
Clock change+15 hShanghai vs Vancouver, today
Great-circle route from Vancouver (YVR) to Shanghai (PVG)YVRVancouverPVGShanghai
The shortest path over the Earth’s surface (great circle), drawn on a Natural Earth projection. Real flight paths bend around weather, winds and closed airspace.

Flight time each way

YVR → PVG

12 h

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 308° (NW).

Leave Vancouver Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Shanghai Sun 8 Nov, 13:00 local +1 day.

PVG → YVR

10 h 40 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 37° (NE).

Leave Shanghai Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Vancouver Sat 7 Nov, 05:40 local.

PVG-bound flights are the slower direction by about 85 minutes in our estimate: the route runs mostly east–west through latitudes where the prevailing westerly winds at cruise height are strong, so heading east rides a tailwind and heading west fights a headwind. How we estimate it.

Distance

Great-circle distance9,016 km · 5,602 mi · 4,868 nmi
Initial heading308° (NW) from YVR; 37° (NE) from PVG
Farthest from the equator59.1°N — the path arcs north of both airports
Crossesthe 180th meridian (International Date Line area)
Share of the longest possible trip45% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

YVRAmerica/Vancouver — UTC−7 now; UTC−8 standard time, UTC−7 during daylight saving time
PVGAsia/Shanghai — UTC+8 now; UTC+8 all year (no daylight saving time)
DifferenceShanghai is 15 hours ahead of Vancouver today; +16 h in January and +15 h in July because daylight saving time starts and ends on different dates (or not at all).

Jet lag, flying YVR → PVG. The clock change is 15 hours, but to your body that is a shift of 9 hours the other way. Your body clock has to move 9 hours later, like a westward trip. A common rule of thumb is that the body clock adjusts by roughly one time zone a day, so expect up to about 9 days to fully adjust. Shifting later (as here) is usually the easier direction; evening daylight at the destination helps. Flying the other way, the shift is reversed.

General information, not medical advice.

The two airports

YVR Vancouver International AirportVancouver, Canada · longest runway 11,500 ft3,505 m PVG Shanghai Pudong International AirportShanghai, China · longest runway 13,123 ft4,000 m

More routes from YVR and PVG

YYCYVR Calgary – Vancouver 687 km427 mi · 1 h 55 min YYZYVR Toronto – Vancouver 3,346 km2,079 mi · 5 h 15 min YVRNRT Vancouver – Tokyo 7,503 km4,662 mi · 10 h 20 min YVRHND Vancouver – Tokyo 7,558 km4,697 mi · 10 h 25 min YVRICN Vancouver – Seoul 8,200 km5,095 mi · 11 h YVRSYD Vancouver – Sydney 12,501 km7,768 mi · 15 h 50 min PEKPVG Beijing – Shanghai 1,099 km683 mi · 2 h 15 min PVGHKG Shanghai – Hong Kong 1,255 km780 mi · 2 h 35 min PVGNRT Shanghai – Tokyo 1,796 km1,116 mi · 2 h 55 min FRAPVG Frankfurt – Shanghai 8,859 km5,505 mi · 10 h 30 min LHRPVG London – Shanghai 9,241 km5,742 mi · 11 h LAXPVG Los Angeles – Shanghai 10,415 km6,472 mi · 14 h

Routes of a similar length

FRABKK Frankfurt – Bangkok 9,000 km5,593 mi · 10 h 35 min DXBPER Dubai – Perth 9,041 km5,618 mi · 11 h 05 min MEXMAD Mexico City – Madrid 9,065 km5,633 mi · 10 h 30 min SFOCDG San Francisco – Paris 8,963 km5,569 mi · 10 h 45 min

Need a different pair? The flight-time calculator works for any two of 3,245 airports. Not covered: which airlines fly this route, schedules, fares and live status — that data is proprietary and we don’t guess it.

Photos on airport pages are credited there. Estimates are rounded to 5 minutes; typical error about 13 minutes (validation).