Distance from Chicago to Singapore
Flying the shortest possible route, Singapore lies 15,080 km (9,371 miles, 8,143 nautical miles) from Chicago — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 15,080 km · 9,371 mi · 8,143 nmi
- Initial bearing Chicago → Singapore
- 343° (NNW)
- Initial bearing Singapore → Chicago
- 12° (NNE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 18 h 24 min
- Time zones
- Chicago UTC-05:00 · Singapore UTC+08:00 (+13 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 765 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
- Singapore
- 1.2897, 103.8501
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:55 UTC / 11:01 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.