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title: "Bucharest to Dubai (OTP → DXB): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Bucharest to Dubai is 3,394 km (2,109 mi) great circle, an estimated 4h 43m 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-dxb
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OTP → DXB

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

Bucharest Henri Coandă to Dubai is 3,394 km of great circle — 2,109 mi — and an estimated 4h 43m in the air. It crosses from Europe to Asia.

**Great circle**
3,394 km
2,109 mi

**Estimated in the air**
4h 43m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
44.6°N
at 0% along

**One lap of Earth**
8.5%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 161st longest.

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

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Bucharest the path crosses Turkey, then Iraq, then Iran.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 44.6°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 Bucharest the aircraft points south-east (119°); it arrives into Dubai heading south-east (137°). 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 503 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

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

DXB

## Dubai

Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Asia

25.2°N, 55.4°E

[DXB airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/dxb) [Flights to Dubai →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/dubai)

## Bucharest to Dubai, asked and answered

**How far is Bucharest to Dubai?**
Bucharest to Dubai (OTP to DXB) is 3,394 km, or 2,109 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Bucharest to Dubai?**
About 4h 43m 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 Dubai flight take?**
The great circle passes over Turkey, then Iraq, then Iran. It reaches 44.6°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

[DXB → NBO Dubai to Nairobi 3,559 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dxb-to-nbo) [IST → DXB Istanbul to Dubai 3,030 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ist-to-dxb) [FCO → DXB Rome to Dubai 4,343 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fco-to-dxb) [CAI → DXB Cairo to Dubai 2,417 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cai-to-dxb) [DEL → DXB Delhi to Dubai 2,182 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-dxb) [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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