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title: "Los Angeles to Auckland (LAX → AKL): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Los Angeles to Auckland is 10,487 km (6,516 mi) great circle, an estimated 13h 32m 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/lax-to-akl
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LAX → AKL

# Los Angeles to Auckland: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Los Angeles to Auckland is 10,487 km of great circle — 6,516 mi — and an estimated 13h 32m in the air. It crosses from North America to Oceania.

**Great circle**
10,487 km
6,516 mi

**Estimated in the air**
13h 32m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
37.0°S
at 100% along

**One lap of Earth**
26.2%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 35th longest.

The Los Angeles to Auckland route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Los Angeles the path crosses 10,435 km of open water.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 37.0°S, 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.

It arrives on almost the heading it left on — south-west at both ends. The two airports sit at nearly mirrored latitudes, so the arc climbs away from the equator and falls back to it by the same amount, and the compass ends up where it started.

One economy seat on it is about 1.49 t of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

From

LAX

## Los Angeles

Los Angeles, United States · North America

33.9°N, 118.4°W

[LAX airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/lax) [Flights to Los Angeles →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/los-angeles)

To

AKL

## Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand · Oceania

37.0°S, 174.8°E

[AKL airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/akl) [Flights to Auckland →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/auckland)

## Los Angeles to Auckland, asked and answered

**How far is Los Angeles to Auckland?**
Los Angeles to Auckland (LAX to AKL) is 10,487 km, or 6,516 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Los Angeles to Auckland?**
About 13h 32m 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 Los Angeles to Auckland flight take?**
The great circle passes over 10,435 km of open water. It reaches 37.0°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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[Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit)

## Nearby routes

[LAX → PVG Los Angeles to Shanghai 10,415 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-pvg) [LAX → PEK Los Angeles to Beijing 10,037 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-pek) [LAX → ICN Los Angeles to Seoul 9,625 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-icn) [FRA → LAX Frankfurt to Los Angeles 9,322 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fra-to-lax) [LAX → HKG Los Angeles to Hong Kong 11,664 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-hkg) [CDG → LAX Paris to Los Angeles 9,103 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-lax)

## 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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