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title: "Miami to São Paulo (MIA → GRU): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Miami to São Paulo is 6,574 km (4,085 mi) great circle, an estimated 8h 40m 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/mia-to-gru
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MIA → GRU

# Miami to São Paulo: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Miami to São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro is 6,574 km of great circle — 4,085 mi — and an estimated 8h 40m in the air. It crosses from North America to South America.

**Great circle**
6,574 km
4,085 mi

**Estimated in the air**
8h 40m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
25.8°N
at 0% along

**One lap of Earth**
16.4%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 100th longest.

The Miami to São Paulo route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Miami the path crosses 575 km of open water, then Cuba, then 1,052 km of open water, then Venezuela, then Brazil.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 25.8°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.

It arrives on almost the heading it left on — south-east 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 931 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

From

MIA

## Miami

Miami, United States · North America

25.8°N, 80.3°W

[MIA airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/mia) [Flights to Miami →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/miami)

To

GRU

## São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro

São Paulo, Brazil · South America

23.4°S, 46.5°W

[GRU airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/gru) [Flights to São Paulo →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/sao-paulo)

## Miami to São Paulo, asked and answered

**How far is Miami to São Paulo?**
Miami to São Paulo (MIA to GRU) is 6,574 km, or 4,085 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Miami to São Paulo?**
About 8h 40m 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 Miami to São Paulo flight take?**
The great circle passes over 575 km of open water, then Cuba, then 1,052 km of open water, then Venezuela, then Brazil. It reaches 25.8°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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[Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit)

## Nearby routes

[LHR → MIA London to Miami 7,109 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-mia) [MAD → GRU Madrid to São Paulo 8,378 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-gru) [MIA → LIM Miami to Lima 4,219 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mia-to-lim) [LHR → GRU London to São Paulo 9,460 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-gru) [GRU → SCL São Paulo to Santiago 2,615 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/gru-to-scl) [MIA → BOG Miami to Bogotá 2,435 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mia-to-bog)

## 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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