Distance from Beijing to Istanbul
Flying the shortest possible route, Istanbul lies 7,057 km (4,385 miles, 3,810 nautical miles) from Beijing — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 7,057 km · 4,385 mi · 3,810 nmi
- Initial bearing Beijing → Istanbul
- 303° (WNW)
- Initial bearing Istanbul → Beijing
- 59° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 8 h 58 min
- Time zones
- Beijing UTC+08:00 · Istanbul UTC+03:00 (-5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 350 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
- Istanbul
- 41.0138, 28.9497
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:53 UTC / 16:02 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.