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title: "Bucharest to Paris (OTP → CDG): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Bucharest to Paris is 1,851 km (1,150 mi) great circle, an estimated 2h 48m 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-cdg
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OTP → CDG

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

Bucharest Henri Coandă to Charles de Gaulle is 1,851 km of great circle — 1,150 mi — and an estimated 2h 48m in the air. Both ends are in Europe.

**Great circle**
1,851 km
1,150 mi

**Estimated in the air**
2h 48m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
49.0°N
at 100% along

**One lap of Earth**
4.6%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 204th longest.

The Bucharest to Paris 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 Austria, then Germany, then France.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 49.0°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 (294°); it arrives into Paris heading west (277°). That is 17° 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 274 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

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

CDG

## Charles de Gaulle

Paris, France · Europe

49.0°N, 2.6°E

[CDG airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/cdg) [Flights to Paris →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/paris)

## Bucharest to Paris, asked and answered

**How far is Bucharest to Paris?**
Bucharest to Paris (OTP to CDG) is 1,851 km, or 1,150 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Bucharest to Paris?**
About 2h 48m 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 Paris flight take?**
The great circle passes over Romania, then Hungary, then Austria, then Germany, then France. It reaches 49.0°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

[CDG → CMN Paris to Casablanca 1,931 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-cmn) [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) [CDG → IST Paris to Istanbul 2,212 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-ist) [OTP → MXP Bucharest to Milan 1,366 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-mxp) [OTP → BER Bucharest to Berlin 1,267 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-ber)

## 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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