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title: "Buenos Aires to Santiago (EZE → SCL): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Buenos Aires to Santiago is 1,138 km (707 mi) great circle, an estimated 1h 55m 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/eze-to-scl
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EZE → SCL

# Buenos Aires to Santiago: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Ezeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini to Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez is 1,138 km of great circle — 707 mi — and an estimated 1h 55m in the air. Both ends are in South America.

**Great circle**
1,138 km
707 mi

**Estimated in the air**
1h 55m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
34.8°S
at 0% along

**One lap of Earth**
2.8%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 246th longest.

The Buenos Aires to Santiago route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Buenos Aires the path crosses Argentina, then Chile.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 34.8°S, 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 Buenos Aires the aircraft points west (275°); it arrives into Santiago heading west (281°). That is 7° 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 169 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

From

EZE

## Ezeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini

Buenos Aires, Argentina · South America

34.8°S, 58.5°W

[EZE airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/eze)

To

SCL

## Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez

Santiago, Chile · South America

33.4°S, 70.8°W

[SCL airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/scl) [Flights to Santiago →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/santiago)

## Buenos Aires to Santiago, asked and answered

**How far is Buenos Aires to Santiago?**
Buenos Aires to Santiago (EZE to SCL) is 1,138 km, or 707 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago?**
About 1h 55m 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 Buenos Aires to Santiago flight take?**
The great circle passes over Argentina, then Chile. It reaches 34.8°S 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

[GRU → EZE São Paulo to Buenos Aires 1,723 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/gru-to-eze) [LIM → SCL Lima to Santiago 2,462 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lim-to-scl) [GRU → SCL São Paulo to Santiago 2,615 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/gru-to-scl) [SCL → IPC Santiago to Easter Island 3,752 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/scl-to-ipc) [MAD → EZE Madrid to Buenos Aires 10,087 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-eze) [SCL → SYD Santiago to Sydney 11,340 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/scl-to-syd)

## 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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