--- title: "Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City (BKK → SGN): distance and flight time · Orbit" description: "Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City is 716 km (445 mi) great circle, an estimated 1h 23m 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/bkk-to-sgn --- BKK → SGN # Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City: distance, flight time and the route it really takes Suvarnabhumi to Tan Son Nhat is 716 km of great circle — 445 mi — and an estimated 1h 23m in the air. Both ends are in Asia. **Great circle** 716 km 445 mi **Estimated in the air** 1h 23m block time **Furthest from equator** 13.7°N at 0% along **One lap of Earth** 1.8% of 40,075 km Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 268th longest. The Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe ## What the aircraft actually flies over From Bangkok the path crosses Thailand, then Cambodia, then Vietnam. The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 13.7°N, 0% 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. The heading barely moves: south-east out of Bangkok, south-east into Ho Chi Minh City. Over this distance the curve has too little room to bend the compass. One economy seat on it is about 106 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming. [BKK–SGN carbon footprint →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-carbon-calculator?from=BKK&to=SGN) [Map this route →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=BKK-SGN) From BKK ## Suvarnabhumi Bangkok, Thailand · Asia 13.7°N, 100.7°E [BKK airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/bkk) [Flights to Bangkok →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/bangkok) To SGN ## Tan Son Nhat Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Asia 10.8°N, 106.7°E [SGN airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/sgn) ## Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City, asked and answered **How far is Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City?** Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City (BKK to SGN) is 716 km, or 445 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports. **How long is the flight from Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City?** About 1h 23m 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 Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City flight take?** The great circle passes over Thailand, then Cambodia, then Vietnam. It reaches 13.7°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 [BKK → HKT Bangkok to Phuket 674 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bkk-to-hkt) [BKK → RGN Bangkok to Yangon 611 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bkk-to-rgn) [BKK → PNH Bangkok to Phnom Penh 504 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bkk-to-pnh) [SGN → HAN Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi 1,160 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sgn-to-han) [SIN → BKK Singapore to Bangkok 1,417 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sin-to-bkk) [HKG → BKK Hong Kong to Bangkok 1,690 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-bkk) ## 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/bkk-to-sgn for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt