Distance from Buenos Aires to Lagos
The great-circle distance between Buenos Aires, Argentina and Lagos, Nigeria is 7,912 km (4,917 mi · 4,272 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 7,912 km · 4,917 mi · 4,272 nmi
- Initial bearing Buenos Aires → Lagos
- 68° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Lagos → Buenos Aires
- 230° (SW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 9 h 58 min
- Time zones
- Buenos Aires UTC-03:00 · Lagos UTC+01:00 (+4 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 300 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
- Lagos
- 6.4541, 3.3947
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:42 UTC / 18:04 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.