Distance from Los Angeles to Paris
Flying the shortest possible route, Paris lies 9,086 km (5,646 miles, 4,906 nautical miles) from Los Angeles — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 9,086 km · 5,646 mi · 4,906 nmi
- Initial bearing Los Angeles → Paris
- 35° (NE)
- Initial bearing Paris → Los Angeles
- 314° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 11 h 21 min
- Time zones
- Los Angeles UTC-07:00 · Paris UTC+02:00 (+9 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 484 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
- 13:43 UTC / 01:50 UTC
- Paris
- 48.8534, 2.3488
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:39 UTC / 17:49 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.