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

Bucharest Henri Coandă to Vienna is 830 km of great circle — 516 mi — and an estimated 1h 32m in the air. Both ends are in Europe.

Great circle
830 km
516 mi
Estimated in the air
1h 32m
block time
Furthest from equator
48.1°N
at 100% along
One lap of Earth
2.1%
of 40,075 km

Of the 292 routes catalogued here, this is the 260th longest.

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

What the aircraft actually flies over

From Bucharest the path crosses Romania, then Hungary.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 48.1°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 (302°); it arrives into Vienna heading north-west (295°). That is 7° of drift without a single turn — the compass moves because the path is a curve on a sphere, not because the aircraft does.

From

OTP

Bucharest Henri Coandă

Bucharest, Romania · Europe

44.6°N, 26.1°E

To

VIE

Vienna

Vienna, Austria · Europe

48.1°N, 16.6°E

Bucharest to Vienna, asked and answered

How far is Bucharest to Vienna?
Bucharest to Vienna (OTP to VIE) is 830 km, or 516 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.
How long is the flight from Bucharest to Vienna?
About 1h 32m 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 Vienna flight take?
The great circle passes over Romania, then Hungary. It reaches 48.1°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.

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