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title: "Flights to Mexico City: how far it is, and from where · Orbit"
description: "Great circle distances and estimated flying times to Mexico City, Mexico, from 5 cities — 459 km at the nearest, 9,065 km at the furthest. Distance and geography, not fares."
url: https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/mexico-city
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Mexico · North America

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

Mexico City sits at 19.4°N, 99.1°W, served by Mexico City Benito Juárez (MEX). 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**
459 km
from Guadalajara

**Furthest**
9,065 km
from Madrid

**Airports**
1
MEX

## How far Mexico City 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                        |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- | -------------------------------- |
| [Guadalajara](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mex-to-gdl) | GDL | 459 km   | 1h 04m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Cancún](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mex-to-cun)      | CUN | 1,285 km | 2h 06m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-mex) | LAX | 2,500 km | 3h 36m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Lima](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lim-to-mex)        | LIM | 4,245 km | 5h 47m    | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Madrid](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-mex)      | MAD | 9,065 km | 11h 46m   | westbound — the easier direction |

## What Mexico City adds to a map

Mexico City puts a pin in Mexico, 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 Madrid, is 9,065 km: 22.6% 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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