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title: "Lima to Mexico City (LIM → MEX): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Lima to Mexico City is 4,245 km (2,638 mi) great circle, an estimated 5h 47m 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/lim-to-mex
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LIM → MEX

# Lima to Mexico City: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Jorge Chávez to Mexico City Benito Juárez is 4,245 km of great circle — 2,638 mi — and an estimated 5h 47m in the air. It crosses from South America to North America.

**Great circle**
4,245 km
2,638 mi

**Estimated in the air**
5h 47m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
19.4°N
at 100% along

**One lap of Earth**
10.6%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 142nd longest.

The Lima to Mexico City route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Lima the path crosses 3,640 km of open water, then Mexico.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 19.4°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.

It arrives on almost the heading it left on — north-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 601 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

From

LIM

## Jorge Chávez

Lima, Peru · South America

12.0°S, 77.1°W

[LIM airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/lim) [Flights to Lima →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/lima)

To

MEX

## Mexico City Benito Juárez

Mexico City, Mexico · North America

19.4°N, 99.1°W

[MEX airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/mex) [Flights to Mexico City →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/mexico-city)

## Lima to Mexico City, asked and answered

**How far is Lima to Mexico City?**
Lima to Mexico City (LIM to MEX) is 4,245 km, or 2,638 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Lima to Mexico City?**
About 5h 47m 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 Lima to Mexico City flight take?**
The great circle passes over 3,640 km of open water, then Mexico. It reaches 19.4°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

[MIA → LIM Miami to Lima 4,219 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mia-to-lim) [LAX → MEX Los Angeles to Mexico City 2,500 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-mex) [LIM → SCL Lima to Santiago 2,462 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lim-to-scl) [BOG → LIM Bogotá to Lima 1,888 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bog-to-lim) [MEX → CUN Mexico City to Cancún 1,285 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mex-to-cun) [LIM → CUZ Lima to Cusco 586 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lim-to-cuz)

## 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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