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Flights to Los Angeles: how far it is, and from where

Los Angeles sits at 33.9°N, 118.4°W, served by Los Angeles (LAX). Below are 22 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
22
in the catalogue
Nearest
543 km
from San Francisco
Furthest
14,102 km
from Singapore
Airports
1
LAX

How far Los Angeles 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 FranciscoSFO543 km1h 11mbarely any time shift
DenverDEN1,385 km2h 13mbarely any time shift
SeattleSEA1,537 km2h 25mbarely any time shift
Mexico CityMEX2,500 km3h 36mwestbound — the easier direction
ChicagoORD2,802 km3h 59mwestbound — the easier direction
New YorkJFK3,974 km5h 26mwestbound — the easier direction
HonoluluHNL4,108 km5h 36meastbound — the harder direction
TokyoNRT8,753 km11h 23meastbound — the harder direction
LondonLHR8,760 km11h 23mwestbound — the easier direction
TokyoHND8,812 km11h 27meastbound — the harder direction
ParisCDG9,103 km11h 49mwestbound — the easier direction
FrankfurtFRA9,322 km12h 05mwestbound — the easier direction
SeoulICN9,625 km12h 28meastbound — the harder direction
BeijingPEK10,037 km12h 58meastbound — the harder direction
ShanghaiPVG10,415 km13h 27meastbound — the harder direction
AucklandAKL10,487 km13h 32meastbound — the harder direction
Hong KongHKG11,664 km15h 00meastbound — the harder direction
SydneySYD12,061 km15h 29meastbound — the harder direction
MelbourneMEL12,758 km16h 21meastbound — the harder direction
MelbourneMEL12,758 km16h 21meastbound — the harder direction
SingaporeSIN14,102 km18h 01meastbound — the harder direction
SingaporeSIN14,102 km18h 01meastbound — the harder direction

What Los Angeles adds to a map

Los Angeles puts a pin in United States, and North 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 Singapore, is 14,102 km: 35.2% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

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