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How do you combine Ningbo and Shaoxing?

Yes. Ningbo and Shaoxing combine well on one trip. As a rough guide, allow 3 days in Ningbo and 3 days in Shaoxing, around 6 days in total.

How the two connect

Ningbo and Shaoxing are only about 95 km apart, close enough to combine on the same trip without long transfers, and easy to do as a day trip in either direction. The nearest airport to Ningbo is Ningbo Lishe International Airport (NGB), about 10 km away; for Shaoxing it is Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport (HGH), about 30 km away, so you can fly into one and out of the other.

Suggested days

Ningbo
3 days
Shaoxing
3 days
Together
6 days · about 95 km apart

These are starting points, not fixed rules. Add a day to whichever place matches your interests, and build in the travel time between them.

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Day suggestions are a planning guide based on each place's size and profile, not fixed itineraries. Distances are great-circle figures derived from place coordinates; airport data from OurAirports. How Head Your Way compiles its data.