Distance from Kuala Lumpur to Madrid
The great-circle distance between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Madrid, Spain is 11,071 km (6,879 mi · 5,978 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,071 km · 6,879 mi · 5,978 nmi
- Initial bearing Kuala Lumpur → Madrid
- 312° (NW)
- Initial bearing Madrid → Kuala Lumpur
- 77° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 13 h 41 min
- Time zones
- Kuala Lumpur UTC+08:00 · Madrid UTC+02:00 (-6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 420 min — the sun rises earlier in Kuala Lumpur
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
- Kuala Lumpur
- 3.1412, 101.6865
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 23:03 UTC / 11:10 UTC
- Madrid
- 40.4165, -3.7026
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 06:04 UTC / 18:12 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.