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title: "Mexico City to Guadalajara (MEX → GDL): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Mexico City to Guadalajara is 459 km (285 mi) great circle, an estimated 1h 04m 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/mex-to-gdl
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MEX → GDL

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

Mexico City Benito Juárez to Guadalajara is 459 km of great circle — 285 mi — and an estimated 1h 04m in the air. Both ends are in North America.

**Great circle**
459 km
285 mi

**Estimated in the air**
1h 04m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
20.5°N
at 100% along

**One lap of Earth**
1.1%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 284th longest.

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

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Mexico City the path crosses Mexico.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 20.5°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: west out of Mexico City, west into Guadalajara. Over this distance the curve has too little room to bend the compass.

One economy seat on it is about 68 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

From

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)

To

GDL

## Guadalajara

Guadalajara, Mexico · North America

20.5°N, 103.3°W

[GDL airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/gdl)

## Mexico City to Guadalajara, asked and answered

**How far is Mexico City to Guadalajara?**
Mexico City to Guadalajara (MEX to GDL) is 459 km, or 285 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Mexico City to Guadalajara?**
About 1h 04m 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 Mexico City to Guadalajara flight take?**
The great circle passes over Mexico. It reaches 20.5°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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## Nearby routes

[MEX → CUN Mexico City to Cancún 1,285 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mex-to-cun) [LAX → MEX Los Angeles to Mexico City 2,500 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-mex) [LIM → MEX Lima to Mexico City 4,245 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lim-to-mex) [MAD → MEX Madrid to Mexico City 9,065 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-mex) [LHR → DUB London to Dublin 449 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-dub) [MAD → BCN Madrid to Barcelona 483 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-bcn)

## 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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