Distance from Jakarta to Rio de Janeiro
The great-circle distance between Jakarta, Indonesia and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is 15,421 km (9,582 mi · 8,327 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 15,421 km · 9,582 mi · 8,327 nmi
- Initial bearing Jakarta → Rio de Janeiro
- 224° (SW)
- Initial bearing Rio de Janeiro → Jakarta
- 131° (SE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 18 h 48 min
- Time zones
- Jakarta UTC+07:00 · Rio de Janeiro UTC-03:00 (-10 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 621 min — the sun rises earlier in Jakarta
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
- Jakarta
- -6.2146, 106.8451
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 23:03 UTC / 10:55 UTC
- Rio de Janeiro
- -22.9064, -43.1822
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 09:24 UTC / 20:35 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.