Distance from Kinshasa to Tokyo
The great-circle distance between Kinshasa, DR Congo and Tokyo, Japan is 13,353 km (8,297 mi · 7,210 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 13,353 km · 8,297 mi · 7,210 nmi
- Initial bearing Kinshasa → Tokyo
- 51° (NE)
- Initial bearing Tokyo → Kinshasa
- 288° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 16 h 22 min
- Time zones
- Kinshasa UTC+01:00 · Tokyo UTC+09:00 (+8 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 552 min — the sun rises later in Kinshasa
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
- Kinshasa
- -4.3276, 15.3136
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:07 UTC / 17:04 UTC
- Tokyo
- 35.6895, 139.6917
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 19:55 UTC / 09:41 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.