Distance from Dubai to São Paulo
Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and São Paulo (Brazil) are 12,226 km apart — that's 7,597 miles or 6,601 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 12,226 km · 7,597 mi · 6,601 nmi
- Initial bearing Dubai → São Paulo
- 253° (WSW)
- Initial bearing São Paulo → Dubai
- 71° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 15 h 02 min
- Time zones
- Dubai UTC+04:00 · São Paulo UTC-03:00 (-7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 346 min — the sun rises earlier in Dubai
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
- Dubai
- 25.0772, 55.3093
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 02:31 UTC / 13:35 UTC
- São Paulo
- -23.5475, -46.6361
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 08:18 UTC / 21:25 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.