Distance from Buenos Aires to Istanbul
The great-circle distance between Buenos Aires, Argentina and Istanbul, Türkiye is 12,244 km (7,608 mi · 6,611 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 12,244 km · 7,608 mi · 6,611 nmi
- Initial bearing Buenos Aires → Istanbul
- 53° (NE)
- Initial bearing Istanbul → Buenos Aires
- 241° (WSW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 15 h 04 min
- Time zones
- Buenos Aires UTC-03:00 · Istanbul UTC+03:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 454 min — the sun rises later in Buenos Aires
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
- Buenos Aires
- -34.6131, -58.3772
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 10:42 UTC / 21:18 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.