Distance from Bengaluru to Kinshasa
The great-circle distance between Bengaluru, India and Kinshasa, DR Congo is 7,140 km (4,437 mi · 3,855 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 7,140 km · 4,437 mi · 3,855 nmi
- Initial bearing Bengaluru → Kinshasa
- 259° (WSW)
- Initial bearing Kinshasa → Bengaluru
- 73° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 9 h 04 min
- Time zones
- Bengaluru UTC+05:30 · Kinshasa UTC+01:00 (-4.5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 249 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
- 00:40 UTC / 12:46 UTC
- Kinshasa
- -4.3276, 15.3136
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:49 UTC / 16:55 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.