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title: "Dubai to Manila (DXB → MNL): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Dubai to Manila is 6,905 km (4,291 mi) great circle, an estimated 9h 05m 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/dxb-to-mnl
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DXB → MNL

# Dubai to Manila: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Dubai to Ninoy Aquino is 6,905 km of great circle — 4,291 mi — and an estimated 9h 05m in the air. Both ends are in Asia.

**Great circle**
6,905 km
4,291 mi

**Estimated in the air**
9h 05m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
25.5°N
at 12% along

**One lap of Earth**
17.2%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 95th longest.

The Dubai to Manila route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Dubai the path crosses Iran, then Pakistan, then India, then Bangladesh, then Myanmar, then Laos, then China, then 1,174 km of open water.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 25.5°N, 12% of the way along.

Flying the line that looks straight on a Mercator map — one constant compass bearing — would cover 6,955 km. That is 50 km further, about 1% more, and roughly 4m of extra flying.

Leaving Dubai the aircraft points east (86°); it arrives into Manila heading east (111°). That is 25° 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 978 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

From

DXB

## Dubai

Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Asia

25.2°N, 55.4°E

[DXB airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/dxb) [Flights to Dubai →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/dubai)

To

MNL

## Ninoy Aquino

Manila, Philippines · Asia

14.5°N, 121.0°E

[MNL airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/mnl)

## Dubai to Manila, asked and answered

**How far is Dubai to Manila?**
Dubai to Manila (DXB to MNL) is 6,905 km, or 4,291 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Dubai to Manila?**
About 9h 05m 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 Dubai to Manila flight take?**
The great circle passes over Iran, then Pakistan, then India, then Bangladesh, then Myanmar, then Laos, then China, then 1,174 km of open water. It reaches 25.5°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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## Nearby routes

[DXB → JNB Dubai to Johannesburg 6,413 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dxb-to-jnb) [DXB → SIN Dubai to Singapore 5,846 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dxb-to-sin) [MAD → DXB Madrid to Dubai 5,650 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-dxb) [LHR → DXB London to Dubai 5,498 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-dxb) [CDG → DXB Paris to Dubai 5,239 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-dxb) [AMS → DXB Amsterdam to Dubai 5,169 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ams-to-dxb)

## 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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