Distance from Los Angeles to Mumbai
Flying the shortest possible route, Mumbai lies 13,991 km (8,694 miles, 7,555 nautical miles) from Los Angeles — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 13,991 km · 8,694 mi · 7,555 nmi
- Initial bearing Los Angeles → Mumbai
- 347° (NNW)
- Initial bearing Mumbai → Los Angeles
- 11° (NNE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 17 h 07 min
- Time zones
- Los Angeles UTC-07:00 · Mumbai UTC+05:30 (+12.5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 742 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
- 13:10 UTC / 02:49 UTC
- Mumbai
- 19.0728, 72.8826
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 00:48 UTC / 13:42 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.