Distance from Bangkok to São Paulo
The great-circle distance between Bangkok, Thailand and São Paulo, Brazil is 16,396 km (10,188 mi · 8,853 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 16,396 km · 10,188 mi · 8,853 nmi
- Initial bearing Bangkok → São Paulo
- 248° (WSW)
- Initial bearing São Paulo → Bangkok
- 102° (ESE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 19 h 57 min
- Time zones
- Bangkok UTC+07:00 · São Paulo UTC-03:00 (-10 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 542 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
- São Paulo
- -23.5475, -46.6361
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 08:18 UTC / 21:25 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.