--- title: "Stockholm to Helsinki (ARN → HEL): distance and flight time · Orbit" description: "Stockholm to Helsinki is 398 km (247 mi) great circle, an estimated 1h 00m in the air. The route, what it flies over, and why the short way is not the straight line on a map." url: https://orbitflights.app/routes/arn-to-hel --- ARN → HEL # Stockholm to Helsinki: distance, flight time and the route it really takes Stockholm-Arlanda to Helsinki Vantaa is 398 km of great circle — 247 mi — and an estimated 1h 00m in the air. Both ends are in Europe. **Great circle** 398 km 247 mi **Estimated in the air** 1h 00m block time **Furthest from equator** 60.3°N at 100% along **One lap of Earth** 1.0% of 40,075 km Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 287th longest. The Stockholm to Helsinki route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe ## What the aircraft actually flies over From Stockholm the path crosses Sweden, then 232 km of open water, then Finland. The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 60.3°N, 100% of the way along. Holding a single compass bearing the whole way would cover almost exactly the same ground, so on this route the flat map and the globe agree. Leaving Stockholm the aircraft points east (76°); it arrives into Helsinki heading east (82°). That is 6° of drift without a single turn — the compass moves because the path is a curve on a sphere, not because the aircraft does. One economy seat on it is about 59 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming. [ARN–HEL carbon footprint →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-carbon-calculator?from=ARN&to=HEL) [Map this route →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=ARN-HEL) From ARN ## Stockholm-Arlanda Stockholm, Sweden · Europe 59.6°N, 17.9°E [ARN airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/arn) To HEL ## Helsinki Vantaa Helsinki, Finland · Europe 60.3°N, 25.0°E [HEL airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/hel) ## Stockholm to Helsinki, asked and answered **How far is Stockholm to Helsinki?** Stockholm to Helsinki (ARN to HEL) is 398 km, or 247 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports. **How long is the flight from Stockholm to Helsinki?** About 1h 00m in the air. That is an estimate from the distance at a typical airliner block speed, plus half an hour for taxi, climb and descent; published schedules vary with winds and routing. **What route does a Stockholm to Helsinki flight take?** The great circle passes over Sweden, then 232 km of open water, then Finland. It reaches 60.3°N at its furthest from the equator. ## Where these numbers come from Distances are computed from the two airports’ own coordinates, not looked up from published routes. Times are estimates, not schedules. [Why the shortest path is a curve →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/great-circle-routes-explained) ## Flown this one? Orbit logs it in two taps and draws the arc on your own globe, along with every other flight you can remember. Free for your first 15. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) ## Nearby routes [LHR → ARN London to Stockholm 1,463 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-arn) [LHR → HEL London to Helsinki 1,848 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-hel) [HEL → ICN Helsinki to Seoul 7,032 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hel-to-icn) [HEL → NRT Helsinki to Tokyo 7,829 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hel-to-nrt) [MIA → HAV Miami to Havana 379 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mia-to-hav) [OTP → IST Bucharest to Istanbul 424 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-ist) ## Further reading [How many miles do you have to fly around the world?](https://orbitflights.app/blog/how-many-miles-to-fly-around-the-world) [What is on the exact opposite side of the world?](https://orbitflights.app/blog/opposite-side-of-the-world) [What's actually worth counting in a flight log](https://orbitflights.app/blog/what-is-worth-counting-in-a-flight-log) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/routes/arn-to-hel for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt