Distance from Lagos to Taipei
Flying the shortest possible route, Taipei lies 12,469 km (7,748 miles, 6,733 nautical miles) from Lagos — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 12,469 km · 7,748 mi · 6,733 nmi
- Initial bearing Lagos → Taipei
- 60° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Taipei → Lagos
- 289° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 15 h 20 min
- Time zones
- Lagos UTC+01:00 · Taipei UTC+08:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 449 min — the sun rises later 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
- Taipei
- 25.0531, 121.5264
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:06 UTC / 09:11 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.