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title: "Flights to Seoul: how far it is, and from where · Orbit"
description: "Great circle distances and estimated flying times to Seoul, South Korea, from 9 cities — 822 km at the nearest, 11,089 km at the furthest. Distance and geography, not fares."
url: https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/seoul
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South Korea · Asia

# 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.

| From                                                        |     | Distance  | Estimated | Direction                        |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- | -------------------------------- |
| [Shanghai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/icn-to-pvg)      | PVG | 822 km    | 1h 31m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-icn)         | HND | 1,210 km  | 2h 00m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Bangkok](https://orbitflights.app/routes/icn-to-bkk)       | BKK | 3,669 km  | 5h 04m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Helsinki](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hel-to-icn)      | HEL | 7,032 km  | 9h 14m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Seattle](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sea-to-icn)       | SEA | 8,373 km  | 10h 54m   | westbound — the easier direction |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-icn)        | LHR | 8,861 km  | 11h 31m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [San Francisco](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-icn) | SFO | 9,085 km  | 11h 47m   | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-icn)   | LAX | 9,625 km  | 12h 28m   | westbound — the easier direction |
| [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jfk-to-icn)      | JFK | 11,089 km | 14h 17m   | westbound — 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.

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

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