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title: "Beijing to Hong Kong (PEK → HKG): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Beijing to Hong Kong is 1,992 km (1,237 mi) great circle, an estimated 2h 58m 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/pek-to-hkg
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PEK → HKG

# Beijing to Hong Kong: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Beijing Capital to Hong Kong is 1,992 km of great circle — 1,237 mi — and an estimated 2h 58m in the air. Both ends are in Asia.

**Great circle**
1,992 km
1,237 mi

**Estimated in the air**
2h 58m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
40.1°N
at 0% along

**One lap of Earth**
5.0%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 197th longest.

The Beijing to Hong Kong route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Beijing the path crosses China.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 40.1°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.

The heading barely moves: south out of Beijing, south into Hong Kong. Over this distance the curve has too little room to bend the compass.

One economy seat on it is about 295 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

From

PEK

## Beijing Capital

Beijing, China · Asia

40.1°N, 116.6°E

[PEK airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/pek) [Flights to Beijing →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/beijing)

To

HKG

## Hong Kong

Hong Kong, Hong Kong · Asia

22.3°N, 113.9°E

[HKG airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/hkg) [Flights to Hong Kong →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/hong-kong)

## Beijing to Hong Kong, asked and answered

**How far is Beijing to Hong Kong?**
Beijing to Hong Kong (PEK to HKG) is 1,992 km, or 1,237 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Beijing to Hong Kong?**
About 2h 58m 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 Beijing to Hong Kong flight take?**
The great circle passes over China. It reaches 40.1°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.

[Why the shortest path is a curve →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/great-circle-routes-explained)

## Flown this one?

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## Nearby routes

[HKG → BKK Hong Kong to Bangkok 1,690 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-bkk) [HKG → SIN Hong Kong to Singapore 2,566 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-sin) [HKG → PVG Hong Kong to Shanghai 1,255 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-pvg) [PEK → PVG Beijing to Shanghai 1,099 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/pek-to-pvg) [HKG → TPE Hong Kong to Taipei 806 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hkg-to-tpe) [MUC → PEK Munich to Beijing 7,722 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/muc-to-pek)

## 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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