Distance from Buenos Aires to Tokyo
Flying the shortest possible route, Tokyo lies 18,370 km (11,415 miles, 9,919 nautical miles) from Buenos Aires — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 18,370 km · 11,415 mi · 9,919 nmi
- Initial bearing Buenos Aires → Tokyo
- 279° (W)
- Initial bearing Tokyo → Buenos Aires
- 91° (E)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 22 h 16 min
- Time zones
- Buenos Aires UTC-03:00 · Tokyo UTC+09:00 (+12 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 696 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
- 08:46 UTC / 22:30 UTC
- Tokyo
- 35.6895, 139.6917
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:10 UTC / 07:41 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.