Distance from Hong Kong to Istanbul
Flying the shortest possible route, Istanbul lies 8,020 km (4,983 miles, 4,331 nautical miles) from Hong Kong — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,020 km · 4,983 mi · 4,331 nmi
- Initial bearing Hong Kong → Istanbul
- 308° (NW)
- Initial bearing Istanbul → Hong Kong
- 76° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 06 min
- Time zones
- Hong Kong UTC+08:00 · Istanbul UTC+03:00 (-5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 309 min — the sun rises earlier in Hong Kong
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
- Hong Kong
- 22.2783, 114.1747
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:59 UTC / 11:01 UTC
- Istanbul
- 41.0138, 28.9497
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:07 UTC / 17:14 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.