Distance from Bangkok to Buenos Aires
The great-circle distance between Bangkok, Thailand and Buenos Aires, Argentina is 16,872 km (10,484 mi · 9,110 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 16,872 km · 10,484 mi · 9,110 nmi
- Initial bearing Bangkok → Buenos Aires
- 219° (SW)
- Initial bearing Buenos Aires → Bangkok
- 132° (SE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 20 h 30 min
- Time zones
- Bangkok UTC+07:00 · Buenos Aires UTC-03:00 (-10 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 635 min — the sun rises earlier in Bangkok
Flight time is a cruise-speed approximation (no routing/wind); driving distance depends on roads and is typically 20–40% longer than great-circle.
The two cities
- Bangkok
- 13.7540, 100.5014
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 23:08 UTC / 11:15 UTC
- Buenos Aires
- -34.6131, -58.3772
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 09:42 UTC / 21:51 UTC
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Distances here are straight-line (great-circle). Road routes typically run 1.2–1.4× longer — here's why, with the visual.