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title: "Tokyo to Bangkok (HND → BKK): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Tokyo to Bangkok is 4,590 km (2,852 mi) great circle, an estimated 6h 12m 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/hnd-to-bkk
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HND → BKK

# Tokyo to Bangkok: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Tokyo Haneda to Suvarnabhumi is 4,590 km of great circle — 2,852 mi — and an estimated 6h 12m in the air. Both ends are in Asia.

**Great circle**
4,590 km
2,852 mi

**Estimated in the air**
6h 12m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
35.5°N
at 0% along

**One lap of Earth**
11.5%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 138th longest.

The Tokyo to Bangkok route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Tokyo the path crosses Japan, then 1,113 km of open water, then China, then 448 km of open water, then Laos, then Thailand.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 35.5°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 Tokyo the aircraft points west (248°); it arrives into Bangkok heading south-west (231°). That is 17° 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 650 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

From

HND

## Tokyo Haneda

Tokyo, Japan · Asia

35.5°N, 139.8°E

[HND airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/hnd) [Flights to Tokyo →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/tokyo)

To

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)

## Tokyo to Bangkok, asked and answered

**How far is Tokyo to Bangkok?**
Tokyo to Bangkok (HND to BKK) is 4,590 km, or 2,852 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Tokyo to Bangkok?**
About 6h 12m 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 Tokyo to Bangkok flight take?**
The great circle passes over Japan, then 1,113 km of open water, then China, then 448 km of open water, then Laos, then Thailand. It reaches 35.5°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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[Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit)

## Nearby routes

[DXB → BKK Dubai to Bangkok 4,903 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dxb-to-bkk) [HND → SIN Tokyo to Singapore 5,300 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-sin) [ICN → BKK Seoul to Bangkok 3,669 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/icn-to-bkk) [HNL → HND Honolulu to Tokyo 6,191 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnl-to-hnd) [HND → TPE Tokyo to Taipei 2,122 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-tpe) [HND → PVG Tokyo to Shanghai 1,738 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-pvg)

## 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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