Distance from Beijing to Bogotá
Flying the shortest possible route, Bogotá lies 14,950 km (9,290 miles, 8,072 nautical miles) from Beijing — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 14,950 km · 9,290 mi · 8,072 nmi
- Initial bearing Beijing → Bogotá
- 15° (NNE)
- Initial bearing Bogotá → Beijing
- 349° (NNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 18 h 15 min
- Time zones
- Beijing UTC+08:00 · Bogotá UTC-05:00 (-13 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 814 min — the sun rises earlier in Beijing
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
- Beijing
- 39.9075, 116.3972
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:20 UTC / 11:22 UTC
- Bogotá
- 4.6097, -74.0817
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 10:54 UTC / 23:12 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.