Nonstop flight route between Foshan, Guangdong, China and San Diego, California, United States:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Foshan Shadi Airport (FUO), Foshan, Guangdong, China and San Diego International Airport (SAN), San Diego, California, United States would travel a Great Circle distance of 7,353 miles (or 11,834 kilometers).

A Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere. Because most world maps are flat (but the Earth is round), the route of the shortest distance between 2 points on the Earth will often appear curved when viewed on a flat map, especially for long distances. If you were to simply draw a straight line on a flat map and measure a very long distance, it would likely be much further than if you were to lay a string between those two points on a globe. Because of the large distance between Foshan Shadi Airport and San Diego International Airport, the route shown on this map most likely appears curved because of this reason.

Try it at home! Get a globe and tightly lay a string between Foshan Shadi Airport and San Diego International Airport. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Arrival Airport Information:

Facts about Foshan Shadi Airport (FUO):

• In addition to being known as "Foshan Shadi Airport", other names for FUO include "佛山沙堤机场" and "Fóshān Shādī Jīchǎng".
• The furthest airport from Foshan Shadi Airport (FUO) is El Loa Airport (CJC), which is nearly antipodal to Foshan Shadi Airport (meaning Foshan Shadi Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from El Loa Airport), and is located 12,305 miles (19,802 kilometers) away in Calama, Antofagasta Region, Chile.
• Foshan Shadi Airport (FUO) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to Foshan Shadi Airport (FUO) is Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN), which is located 26 miles (42 kilometers) NE of FUO.

Facts about San Diego International Airport (SAN):

• In addition to being known as "San Diego International Airport", another name for SAN is "Lindbergh Field".
• The airport is near the site of the Ryan Airlines factory, but it is not the same as Dutch Flats, the Ryan airstrip where Charles Lindbergh flight tested the Spirit of St.
• Runway 27, is a localizer-only approach and is unusable for landing when visibility drops below about 2 miles.
• San Diego International is the busiest single-runway commercial airport in the United States, and the second-busiest single-use runway in the world after London Gatwick with about 550 departures and arrivals carrying 50,000 passengers each day, and a total of 17,250,269 passengers in 2012.
• The furthest airport from San Diego International Airport (SAN) is Sir Gaëtan Duval Airport (RRG), which is located 11,540 miles (18,571 kilometers) away in Rodrigues Island, Mauritius.
• Lindbergh Field does not have standard 1,000 ft runway safety areas at the end of each runway.
• Because of San Diego International Airport's relatively low elevation of 17 feet, planes can take off or land at San Diego International Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
• The closest airport to San Diego International Airport (SAN) is NAS North Island (NZY), which is located only 3 miles (5 kilometers) SSW of SAN.
• As of December 2012, San Diego International Airport is served by 22 passenger airlines and five cargo airlines which fly nonstop to 54 destinations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, and Japan.
• Convair had aircraft manufacturing plants near the field and used it for test and delivery flights from 1935 to 1995.
• San Diego International Airport (SAN) currently has only 1 runway.