Distance from Chengdu to Mexico City
Chengdu (China) and Mexico City (Mexico) are 13,918 km apart — that's 8,648 miles or 7,515 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 13,918 km · 8,648 mi · 7,515 nmi
- Initial bearing Chengdu → Mexico City
- 27° (NNE)
- Initial bearing Mexico City → Chengdu
- 336° (NNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 17 h 02 min
- Time zones
- Chengdu UTC+08:00 · Mexico City UTC-06:00 (-14 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 830 min — the sun rises earlier in Chengdu
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
- Chengdu
- 30.6667, 104.0667
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:26 UTC / 11:54 UTC
- Mexico City
- 19.4285, -99.1277
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 12:16 UTC / 01:10 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.