--- title: "Hong Kong to Taipei (HKG → TPE): distance and flight time · Orbit" description: "Hong Kong to Taipei is 806 km (501 mi) great circle, an estimated 1h 30m 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/hkg-to-tpe --- HKG → TPE # Hong Kong to Taipei: distance, flight time and the route it really takes Hong Kong to Taiwan Taoyuan is 806 km of great circle — 501 mi — and an estimated 1h 30m in the air. Both ends are in Asia. **Great circle** 806 km 501 mi **Estimated in the air** 1h 30m block time **Furthest from equator** 25.1°N at 100% along **One lap of Earth** 2.0% of 40,075 km Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 264th longest. The Hong Kong to Taipei route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe ## What the aircraft actually flies over From Hong Kong the path crosses China, then 427 km of open water. The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 25.1°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. The heading barely moves: north-east out of Hong Kong, east into Taipei. Over this distance the curve has too little room to bend the compass. One economy seat on it is about 119 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming. [HKG–TPE carbon footprint →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-carbon-calculator?from=HKG&to=TPE) [Map this route →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=HKG-TPE) From HKG ## Hong Kong Hong Kong, Hong Kong · Asia 22.3°N, 113.9°E [HKG airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/hkg) [Flights to Hong Kong →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/hong-kong) To TPE ## Taiwan Taoyuan Taipei, Taiwan · Asia 25.1°N, 121.2°E [TPE airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/tpe) ## Hong Kong to Taipei, asked and answered **How far is Hong Kong to Taipei?** Hong Kong to Taipei (HKG to TPE) is 806 km, or 501 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports. **How long is the flight from Hong Kong to Taipei?** About 1h 30m 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 Hong Kong to Taipei flight take?** The great circle passes over China, then 427 km of open water. It reaches 25.1°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 [HKG → PVG Hong Kong to Shanghai 1,255 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-pvg) [HKG → BKK Hong Kong to Bangkok 1,690 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-bkk) [PEK → HKG Beijing to Hong Kong 1,992 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/pek-to-hkg) [HND → TPE Tokyo to Taipei 2,122 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-tpe) [HKG → SIN Hong Kong to Singapore 2,566 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-sin) [FRA → HKG Frankfurt to Hong Kong 9,154 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-hkg) ## 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/hkg-to-tpe for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt