Distance from Los Angeles to Moscow
Los Angeles (United States) and Moscow (Russia) are 9,769 km apart — that's 6,070 miles or 5,275 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 9,769 km · 6,070 mi · 5,275 nmi
- Initial bearing Los Angeles → Moscow
- 13° (NNE)
- Initial bearing Moscow → Los Angeles
- 340° (NNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 12 h 09 min
- Time zones
- Los Angeles UTC-08:00 · Moscow UTC+03:00 (+11 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 569 min — the sun rises later in Los Angeles
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
- Los Angeles
- 34.0522, -118.2437
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 14:20 UTC / 00:55 UTC
- Moscow
- 55.7520, 37.6178
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:50 UTC / 13:38 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.