Distance from Beijing to Tehran
Flying the shortest possible route, Tehran lies 5,601 km (3,480 miles, 3,024 nautical miles) from Beijing — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 5,601 km · 3,480 mi · 3,024 nmi
- Initial bearing Beijing → Tehran
- 287° (WNW)
- Initial bearing Tehran → Beijing
- 64° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 7 h 15 min
- Time zones
- Beijing UTC+08:00 · Tehran UTC+03:30 (-4.5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 252 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
- 22:51 UTC / 09:07 UTC
- Tehran
- 35.6944, 51.4215
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:04 UTC / 13:34 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.