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

Vancouver sits at 49.2°N, 123.2°W, served by Vancouver (YVR). 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
687 km
from Calgary
Furthest
12,501 km
from Sydney
Airports
1
YVR

How far Vancouver 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
CalgaryYYC687 km1h 21mbarely any time shift
TorontoYYZ3,346 km4h 39mwestbound — the easier direction
TokyoNRT7,503 km9h 49meastbound — the harder direction
Hong KongHKG10,269 km13h 16meastbound — the harder direction
SydneySYD12,501 km16h 02meastbound — the harder direction

What Vancouver adds to a map

Vancouver puts a pin in Canada, 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 Sydney, is 12,501 km: 31.2% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

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