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title: "Flights to Honolulu: how far it is, and from where · Orbit"
description: "Great circle distances and estimated flying times to Honolulu, United States, from 5 cities — 3,857 km at the nearest, 8,170 km at the furthest. Distance and geography, not fares."
url: https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/honolulu
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United States · Oceania

# 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.

| From                                                        |     | Distance | Estimated | Direction                        |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- | -------------------------------- |
| [San Francisco](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-hnl) | SFO | 3,857 km | 5h 18m    | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-hnl)   | LAX | 4,108 km | 5h 36m    | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Seattle](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sea-to-hnl)       | SEA | 4,308 km | 5h 51m    | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnl-to-hnd)         | HND | 6,191 km | 8h 12m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Sydney](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnl-to-syd)        | SYD | 8,170 km | 10h 39m   | eastbound — 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.

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

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