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title: "Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro (LIS → GIG): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro is 7,715 km (4,794 mi) great circle, an estimated 10h 05m 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/lis-to-gig
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LIS → GIG

# Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Lisbon Humberto Delgado to Rio Galeão – Tom Jobim is 7,715 km of great circle — 4,794 mi — and an estimated 10h 05m in the air. It crosses from Europe to South America.

**Great circle**
7,715 km
4,794 mi

**Estimated in the air**
10h 05m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
38.8°N
at 0% along

**One lap of Earth**
19.3%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 85th longest.

The Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Lisbon the path crosses 5,690 km of open water, then Brazil, then 482 km of open water, then Brazil.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 38.8°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 Lisbon the aircraft points south-west (214°); it arrives into Rio de Janeiro heading south-west (208°). That is 6° 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 1.09 t of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

From

LIS

## Lisbon Humberto Delgado

Lisbon, Portugal · Europe

38.8°N, 9.1°W

[LIS airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/lis)

To

GIG

## Rio Galeão – Tom Jobim

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · South America

22.8°S, 43.3°W

[GIG airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/gig)

## Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, asked and answered

**How far is Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro?**
Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro (LIS to GIG) is 7,715 km, or 4,794 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro?**
About 10h 05m 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 Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro flight take?**
The great circle passes over 5,690 km of open water, then Brazil, then 482 km of open water, then Brazil. It reaches 38.8°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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## Nearby routes

[LIS → JFK Lisbon to New York 5,404 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lis-to-jfk) [LHR → LIS London to Lisbon 1,564 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-lis) [GRU → GIG São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro 336 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/gru-to-gig) [SEA → HND Seattle to Tokyo 7,711 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sea-to-hnd) [MUC → PEK Munich to Beijing 7,722 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/muc-to-pek) [LHR → SEA London to Seattle 7,702 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-sea)

## 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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