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title: "Bucharest to Berlin (OTP → BER): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Bucharest to Berlin is 1,267 km (787 mi) great circle, an estimated 2h 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/otp-to-ber
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OTP → BER

# Bucharest to Berlin: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Bucharest Henri Coandă to Berlin Brandenburg is 1,267 km of great circle — 787 mi — and an estimated 2h 04m in the air. Both ends are in Europe.

**Great circle**
1,267 km
787 mi

**Estimated in the air**
2h 04m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
52.4°N
at 100% along

**One lap of Earth**
3.2%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 234th longest.

The Bucharest to Berlin route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Bucharest the path crosses Romania, then Hungary, then Slovakia, then Czechia, then Poland, then Germany.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 52.4°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.

Leaving Bucharest the aircraft points north-west (318°); it arrives into Berlin heading north-west (308°). That is 9° 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 188 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

From

OTP

## Bucharest Henri Coandă

Bucharest, Romania · Europe

44.6°N, 26.1°E

[OTP airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/otp) [Flights to Bucharest →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/bucharest)

To

BER

## Berlin Brandenburg

Berlin, Germany · Europe

52.4°N, 13.5°E

[BER airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/ber)

## Bucharest to Berlin, asked and answered

**How far is Bucharest to Berlin?**
Bucharest to Berlin (OTP to BER) is 1,267 km, or 787 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Bucharest to Berlin?**
About 2h 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 Bucharest to Berlin flight take?**
The great circle passes over Romania, then Hungary, then Slovakia, then Czechia, then Poland, then Germany. It reaches 52.4°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

[OTP → MXP Bucharest to Milan 1,366 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-mxp) [LHR → BER London to Berlin 961 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-ber) [OTP → VIE Bucharest to Vienna 830 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-vie) [OTP → CDG Bucharest to Paris 1,851 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-cdg) [BCN → OTP Barcelona to Bucharest 1,982 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bcn-to-otp) [LHR → OTP London to Bucharest 2,105 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-otp)

## 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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