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

Lima sits at 12.0°S, 77.1°W, served by Jorge Chávez (LIM). 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
586 km
from Cusco
Furthest
4,245 km
from Mexico City
Airports
1
LIM

How far Lima 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
CuscoCUZ586 km1h 14mbarely any time shift
BogotáBOG1,888 km2h 51mbarely any time shift
SantiagoSCL2,462 km3h 34mbarely any time shift
MiamiMIA4,219 km5h 45mbarely any time shift
Mexico CityMEX4,245 km5h 47meastbound — the harder direction

What Lima adds to a map

Lima puts a pin in Peru, and South America 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 Mexico City, is 4,245 km: 10.6% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

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