Distance from Hong Kong to Seoul
Flying the shortest possible route, Seoul lies 2,096 km (1,302 miles, 1,132 nautical miles) from Hong Kong — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 2,096 km · 1,302 mi · 1,132 nmi
- Initial bearing Hong Kong → Seoul
- 33° (NNE)
- Initial bearing Seoul → Hong Kong
- 219° (SW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 3 h 07 min
- Time zones
- Hong Kong UTC+08:00 · Seoul UTC+09:00 (+1 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 76 min — the sun rises later 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
- Seoul
- 37.5660, 126.9784
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 20:42 UTC / 10:35 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.