Distance from Moscow to Seoul
Flying the shortest possible route, Seoul lies 6,606 km (4,105 miles, 3,567 nautical miles) from Moscow — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 6,606 km · 4,105 mi · 3,567 nmi
- Initial bearing Moscow → Seoul
- 67° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Seoul → Moscow
- 319° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 8 h 26 min
- Time zones
- Moscow UTC+03:00 · Seoul UTC+09:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 306 min — the sun rises later in Moscow
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
- Moscow
- 55.7520, 37.6178
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 01:48 UTC / 17:24 UTC
- Seoul
- 37.5660, 126.9784
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 20:42 UTC / 10:35 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.