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

Seoul sits at 37.5°N, 126.5°E, served by Incheon (ICN). Below are 9 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
9
in the catalogue
Nearest
822 km
from Shanghai
Furthest
11,089 km
from New York
Airports
1
ICN

How far Seoul 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
ShanghaiPVG822 km1h 31mbarely any time shift
TokyoHND1,210 km2h 00mbarely any time shift
BangkokBKK3,669 km5h 04meastbound — the harder direction
HelsinkiHEL7,032 km9h 14meastbound — the harder direction
SeattleSEA8,373 km10h 54mwestbound — the easier direction
LondonLHR8,861 km11h 31meastbound — the harder direction
San FranciscoSFO9,085 km11h 47mwestbound — the easier direction
Los AngelesLAX9,625 km12h 28mwestbound — the easier direction
New YorkJFK11,089 km14h 17mwestbound — the easier direction

What Seoul adds to a map

Seoul puts a pin in South Korea, and Asia 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 New York, is 11,089 km: 27.7% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

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