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title: "Paris to Dakar (CDG → DKR): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Paris to Dakar is 4,225 km (2,625 mi) great circle, an estimated 5h 45m 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/cdg-to-dkr
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CDG → DKR

# Paris to Dakar: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Charles de Gaulle to Léopold Sédar Senghor is 4,225 km of great circle — 2,625 mi — and an estimated 5h 45m in the air. It crosses from Europe to Africa.

**Great circle**
4,225 km
2,625 mi

**Estimated in the air**
5h 45m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
49.0°N
at 0% along

**One lap of Earth**
10.5%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 143rd longest.

The Paris to Dakar route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Paris the path crosses France, then Spain, then 993 km of open water, then Morocco, then Western Sahara, then Mauritania.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 49.0°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.

Leaving Paris the aircraft points south-west (213°); it arrives into Dakar heading south (201°). That is 11° 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 598 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

[CDG–DKR carbon footprint →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-carbon-calculator?from=CDG&to=DKR) [Map this route →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=CDG-DKR)

From

CDG

## Charles de Gaulle

Paris, France · Europe

49.0°N, 2.6°E

[CDG airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/cdg) [Flights to Paris →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/paris)

To

DKR

## Léopold Sédar Senghor

Dakar, Senegal · Africa

14.7°N, 17.5°W

[DKR airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/dkr)

## Paris to Dakar, asked and answered

**How far is Paris to Dakar?**
Paris to Dakar (CDG to DKR) is 4,225 km, or 2,625 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Paris to Dakar?**
About 5h 45m 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 Paris to Dakar flight take?**
The great circle passes over France, then Spain, then 993 km of open water, then Morocco, then Western Sahara, then Mauritania. It reaches 49.0°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?

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[Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit)

## Nearby routes

[CDG → DOH Paris to Doha 4,969 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-doh) [CDG → DXB Paris to Dubai 5,239 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-dxb) [CDG → JFK Paris to New York 5,834 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-jfk) [CDG → IST Paris to Istanbul 2,212 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-ist) [CDG → CMN Paris to Casablanca 1,931 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-cmn) [OTP → CDG Bucharest to Paris 1,851 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-cdg)

## 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)

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