Distance from Mexico City to São Paulo
Flying the shortest possible route, São Paulo lies 7,431 km (4,617 miles, 4,012 nautical miles) from Mexico City — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 7,431 km · 4,617 mi · 4,012 nmi
- Initial bearing Mexico City → São Paulo
- 128° (SE)
- Initial bearing São Paulo → Mexico City
- 306° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 9 h 24 min
- Time zones
- Mexico City UTC-06:00 · São Paulo UTC-03:00 (+3 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 264 min — the sun rises later in Mexico City
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
- Mexico City
- 19.4285, -99.1277
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 12:42 UTC / 00:01 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.