Distance from Kuala Lumpur to Moscow
The great-circle distance between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Moscow, Russia is 8,126 km (5,049 mi · 4,388 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,126 km · 5,049 mi · 4,388 nmi
- Initial bearing Kuala Lumpur → Moscow
- 328° (NNW)
- Initial bearing Moscow → Kuala Lumpur
- 110° (ESE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 13 min
- Time zones
- Kuala Lumpur UTC+08:00 · Moscow UTC+03:00 (-5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 155 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
- 23:13 UTC / 11:27 UTC
- Moscow
- 55.7520, 37.6178
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 01:48 UTC / 17:24 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.