Distance from Beijing to Paris
Flying the shortest possible route, Paris lies 8,217 km (5,106 miles, 4,437 nautical miles) from Beijing — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,217 km · 5,106 mi · 4,437 nmi
- Initial bearing Beijing → Paris
- 321° (NW)
- Initial bearing Paris → Beijing
- 47° (NE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 19 min
- Time zones
- Beijing UTC+08:00 · Paris UTC+02:00 (-6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 434 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
- Paris
- 48.8534, 2.3488
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:34 UTC / 19:20 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.