Distance from Bengaluru to Istanbul
Bengaluru (India) and Istanbul (Türkiye) are 5,640 km apart — that's 3,504 miles or 3,045 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 5,640 km · 3,504 mi · 3,045 nmi
- Initial bearing Bengaluru → Istanbul
- 313° (NW)
- Initial bearing Istanbul → Bengaluru
- 109° (ESE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 7 h 18 min
- Time zones
- Bengaluru UTC+05:30 · Istanbul UTC+03:00 (-2.5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 150 min — the sun rises earlier in Bengaluru
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
- Bengaluru
- 12.9719, 77.5937
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 00:37 UTC / 13:15 UTC
- Istanbul
- 41.0138, 28.9497
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:07 UTC / 17:14 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.