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title: "Flights to Delhi: how far it is, and from where · Orbit"
description: "Great circle distances and estimated flying times to Delhi, India, from 8 cities — 816 km at the nearest, 12,382 km at the furthest. Distance and geography, not fares."
url: https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/delhi
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India · Asia

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

Delhi sits at 28.6°N, 77.1°E, served by Indira Gandhi (DEL). 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**
816 km
from Kathmandu

**Furthest**
12,382 km
from San Francisco

**Airports**
1
DEL

## How far Delhi 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                        |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- | -------------------------------- |
| [Kathmandu](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-ktm)     | KTM | 816 km    | 1h 31m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Mumbai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-bom)        | BOM | 1,137 km  | 1h 55m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Kolkata](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-ccu)       | CCU | 1,313 km  | 2h 08m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Bangalore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-blr)     | BLR | 1,709 km  | 2h 37m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Dubai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-dxb)         | DXB | 2,182 km  | 3h 13m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Frankfurt](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-del)     | FRA | 6,122 km  | 8h 06m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-del)        | LHR | 6,731 km  | 8h 52m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [San Francisco](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-sfo) | SFO | 12,382 km | 15h 53m   | westbound — the easier direction |

## What Delhi adds to a map

Delhi puts a pin in India, and Asia 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 San Francisco, is 12,382 km: 30.9% 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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