--- title: "Bucharest to Milan (OTP → MXP): distance and flight time · Orbit" description: "Bucharest to Milan is 1,366 km (849 mi) great circle, an estimated 2h 12m 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-mxp --- OTP → MXP # Bucharest to Milan: distance, flight time and the route it really takes Bucharest Henri Coandă to Milan Malpensa is 1,366 km of great circle — 849 mi — and an estimated 2h 12m in the air. Both ends are in Europe. **Great circle** 1,366 km 849 mi **Estimated in the air** 2h 12m block time **Furthest from equator** 45.6°N at 90% along **One lap of Earth** 3.4% of 40,075 km Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 227th longest. The Bucharest to Milan route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe ## What the aircraft actually flies over From Bucharest the path crosses Romania, then Serbia, then Croatia, then Italy. The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 45.6°N, 90% 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 west (281°); it arrives into Milan heading west (269°). That is 12° 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 203 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming. [OTP–MXP carbon footprint →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-carbon-calculator?from=OTP&to=MXP) [Map this route →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=OTP-MXP) 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 MXP ## Milan Malpensa Milan, Italy · Europe 45.6°N, 8.7°E [MXP airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/mxp) ## Bucharest to Milan, asked and answered **How far is Bucharest to Milan?** Bucharest to Milan (OTP to MXP) is 1,366 km, or 849 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports. **How long is the flight from Bucharest to Milan?** About 2h 12m 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 Milan flight take?** The great circle passes over Romania, then Serbia, then Croatia, then Italy. It reaches 45.6°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? Orbit logs it in two taps and draws the arc on your own globe, along with every other flight you can remember. Free for your first 15. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) ## Nearby routes [OTP → BER Bucharest to Berlin 1,267 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-ber) [LHR → MXP London to Milan 936 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-mxp) [OTP → CDG Bucharest to Paris 1,851 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-cdg) [OTP → VIE Bucharest to Vienna 830 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-vie) [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) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-mxp for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt