Distance from Nairobi to Seoul
Flying the shortest possible route, Seoul lies 10,109 km (6,281 miles, 5,458 nautical miles) from Nairobi — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 10,109 km · 6,281 mi · 5,458 nmi
- Initial bearing Nairobi → Seoul
- 52° (NE)
- Initial bearing Seoul → Nairobi
- 269° (W)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 12 h 33 min
- Time zones
- Nairobi UTC+03:00 · Seoul UTC+09:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 362 min — the sun rises later in Nairobi
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
- Nairobi
- -1.2833, 36.8167
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:23 UTC / 15:29 UTC
- Seoul
- 37.5660, 126.9784
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 21:21 UTC / 09:30 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.