Distance from Beijing to Chicago
Flying the shortest possible route, Chicago lies 10,606 km (6,590 miles, 5,727 nautical miles) from Beijing — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 10,606 km · 6,590 mi · 5,727 nmi
- Initial bearing Beijing → Chicago
- 18° (NNE)
- Initial bearing Chicago → Beijing
- 342° (NNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 13 h 08 min
- Time zones
- Beijing UTC+08:00 · Chicago UTC-05:00 (-13 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 817 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
- Chicago
- 41.8500, -87.6500
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 11:40 UTC / 23:48 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.