Distance from Chicago to Dubai
Flying the shortest possible route, Dubai lies 11,655 km (7,242 miles, 6,293 nautical miles) from Chicago — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,655 km · 7,242 mi · 6,293 nmi
- Initial bearing Chicago → Dubai
- 34° (NE)
- Initial bearing Dubai → Chicago
- 332° (NNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 14 h 22 min
- Time zones
- Chicago UTC-05:00 · Dubai UTC+04:00 (+9 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 571 min — the sun rises later in Chicago
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
- Chicago
- 41.8500, -87.6500
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 11:40 UTC / 23:48 UTC
- Dubai
- 25.0772, 55.3093
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 02:08 UTC / 14:16 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.