Distance from Paris to Tokyo
Paris (France) and Tokyo (Japan) are 9,713 km apart — that's 6,035 miles or 5,244 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 9,713 km · 6,035 mi · 5,244 nmi
- Initial bearing Paris → Tokyo
- 33° (NNE)
- Initial bearing Tokyo → Paris
- 333° (NNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 12 h 05 min
- Time zones
- Paris UTC+02:00 · Tokyo UTC+09:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 519 min — the sun rises later in Paris
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
- Paris
- 48.8534, 2.3488
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:34 UTC / 19:20 UTC
- Tokyo
- 35.6895, 139.6917
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 19:55 UTC / 09:41 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.