Distance from Bangkok to Rio de Janeiro
Flying the shortest possible route, Rio de Janeiro lies 16,061 km (9,980 miles, 8,672 nautical miles) from Bangkok — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 16,061 km · 9,980 mi · 8,672 nmi
- Initial bearing Bangkok → Rio de Janeiro
- 250° (WSW)
- Initial bearing Rio de Janeiro → Bangkok
- 98° (E)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 19 h 33 min
- Time zones
- Bangkok UTC+07:00 · Rio de Janeiro UTC-03:00 (-10 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 529 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
- 23:16 UTC / 10:50 UTC
- Rio de Janeiro
- -22.9064, -43.1822
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 08:05 UTC / 21:10 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.