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Flights to Honolulu: how far it is, and from where

Honolulu sits at 21.3°N, 157.9°W, served by Daniel K. Inouye (HNL). Below are 5 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
5
in the catalogue
Nearest
3,857 km
from San Francisco
Furthest
8,170 km
from Sydney
Airports
1
HNL

How far Honolulu 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.

FromDistanceEstimatedDirection
San FranciscoSFO3,857 km5h 18mwestbound — the easier direction
Los AngelesLAX4,108 km5h 36mwestbound — the easier direction
SeattleSEA4,308 km5h 51mwestbound — the easier direction
TokyoHND6,191 km8h 12meastbound — the harder direction
SydneySYD8,170 km10h 39meastbound — the harder direction

What Honolulu adds to a map

Honolulu puts a pin in United States, and Oceania 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 Sydney, is 8,170 km: 20.4% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

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