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title: "Flights to Bucharest: how far it is, and from where · Orbit"
description: "Great circle distances and estimated flying times to Bucharest, Romania, from 8 cities — 424 km at the nearest, 3,394 km at the furthest. Distance and geography, not fares."
url: https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/bucharest
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Romania · Europe

# Flights to Bucharest: how far it is, and from where

Bucharest sits at 44.6°N, 26.1°E, served by Bucharest Henri Coandă (OTP). Below are 8 routes into it, with the great circle distance and an estimated flying time for each.

This page is about distance and geography — there are no fares or schedules on it. For tickets, use a booking site; for how far it actually is and what you fly over to get there, you’re in the right place.

**Routes here**
8
in the catalogue

**Nearest**
424 km
from Istanbul

**Furthest**
3,394 km
from Dubai

**Airports**
1
OTP

## How far Bucharest is from everywhere else

Great circle distance between the airports, and an estimate of the time in the air. Every row links to the route in full.

| From                                                    |     | Distance | Estimated | Direction                        |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- | -------------------------------- |
| [Istanbul](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-ist)  | IST | 424 km   | 1h 02m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Vienna](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-vie)    | VIE | 830 km   | 1h 32m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Berlin](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-ber)    | BER | 1,267 km | 2h 04m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Milan](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-mxp)     | MXP | 1,366 km | 2h 12m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Paris](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-cdg)     | CDG | 1,851 km | 2h 48m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Barcelona](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bcn-to-otp) | BCN | 1,982 km | 2h 58m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-otp)    | LHR | 2,105 km | 3h 07m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Dubai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-dxb)     | DXB | 3,394 km | 4h 43m    | westbound — the easier direction |

## What Bucharest adds to a map

Bucharest puts a pin in Romania, and Europe is one of the seven continents — the coarsest and most useful measure of how much of the world a flight map actually covers. The furthest route here, from Dubai, is 3,394 km: 8.5% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

[What actually counts as a country visited →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/counting-countries)

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