Distance from Buenos Aires to Kuala Lumpur
Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) are 15,954 km apart — that's 9,914 miles or 8,615 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 15,954 km · 9,914 mi · 8,615 nmi
- Initial bearing Buenos Aires → Kuala Lumpur
- 145° (SE)
- Initial bearing Kuala Lumpur → Buenos Aires
- 208° (SSW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 19 h 26 min
- Time zones
- Buenos Aires UTC-03:00 · Kuala Lumpur UTC+08:00 (+11 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 639 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
- 09:42 UTC / 21:51 UTC
- Kuala Lumpur
- 3.1412, 101.6865
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 23:03 UTC / 11:10 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.