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title: "Flights to Vancouver: how far it is, and from where · Orbit"
description: "Great circle distances and estimated flying times to Vancouver, Canada, from 5 cities — 687 km at the nearest, 12,501 km at the furthest. Distance and geography, not fares."
url: https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/vancouver
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Canada · North America

# 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.

| From                                                    |     | Distance  | Estimated | Direction                        |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- | -------------------------------- |
| [Calgary](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yvr-to-yyc)   | YYC | 687 km    | 1h 21m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Toronto](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yyz-to-yvr)   | YYZ | 3,346 km  | 4h 39m    | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yvr-to-nrt)     | NRT | 7,503 km  | 9h 49m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Hong Kong](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yvr-to-hkg) | HKG | 10,269 km | 13h 16m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Sydney](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yvr-to-syd)    | SYD | 12,501 km | 16h 02m   | eastbound — 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.

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

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