Distance from Beijing to Chennai
Flying the shortest possible route, Chennai lies 4,616 km (2,868 miles, 2,492 nautical miles) from Beijing — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 4,616 km · 2,868 mi · 2,492 nmi
- Initial bearing Beijing → Chennai
- 240° (WSW)
- Initial bearing Chennai → Beijing
- 43° (NE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 6 h 05 min
- Time zones
- Beijing UTC+08:00 · Chennai UTC+05:30 (-2.5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 146 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
- 22:03 UTC / 10:13 UTC
- Chennai
- 13.0878, 80.2785
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 00:29 UTC / 12:36 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.