Distance from Lagos to São Paulo
Lagos (Nigeria) and São Paulo (Brazil) are 6,371 km apart — that's 3,959 miles or 3,440 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 6,371 km · 3,959 mi · 3,440 nmi
- Initial bearing Lagos → São Paulo
- 237° (WSW)
- Initial bearing São Paulo → Lagos
- 65° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 8 h 09 min
- Time zones
- Lagos UTC+01:00 · São Paulo UTC-03:00 (-4 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 162 min — the sun rises earlier in Lagos
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
- Lagos
- 6.4541, 3.3947
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:35 UTC / 17:27 UTC
- São Paulo
- -23.5475, -46.6361
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 08:18 UTC / 21:25 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.