Distance from Rome to São Paulo
Flying the shortest possible route, São Paulo lies 9,477 km (5,889 miles, 5,117 nautical miles) from Rome — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 9,477 km · 5,889 mi · 5,117 nmi
- Initial bearing Rome → São Paulo
- 232° (SW)
- Initial bearing São Paulo → Rome
- 40° (NE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 11 h 48 min
- Time zones
- Rome UTC+02:00 · São Paulo UTC-03:00 (-5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 237 min — the sun rises earlier in Rome
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
- Rome
- 41.8919, 12.5113
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:59 UTC / 17:08 UTC
- São Paulo
- -23.5475, -46.6361
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 08:56 UTC / 21:04 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.