Distance from Beijing to Seoul
Flying the shortest possible route, Seoul lies 953 km (592 miles, 515 nautical miles) from Beijing — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 953 km · 592 mi · 515 nmi
- Initial bearing Beijing → Seoul
- 102° (ESE)
- Initial bearing Seoul → Beijing
- 289° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 1 h 47 min
- Time zones
- Beijing UTC+08:00 · Seoul UTC+09:00 (+1 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 42 min — the sun rises later 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
- Seoul
- 37.5660, 126.9784
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:21 UTC / 09:30 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.