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title: "Santiago to Easter Island (SCL → IPC): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Santiago to Easter Island is 3,752 km (2,332 mi) great circle, an estimated 5h 10m 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/scl-to-ipc
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SCL → IPC

# Santiago to Easter Island: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez to Mataveri is 3,752 km of great circle — 2,332 mi — and an estimated 5h 10m in the air. Both ends are in South America.

**Great circle**
3,752 km
2,332 mi

**Estimated in the air**
5h 10m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
33.4°S
at 0% along

**One lap of Earth**
9.4%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 154th longest.

The Santiago to Easter Island route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Santiago the path crosses 3,668 km of open water.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 33.4°S, 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 Santiago the aircraft points west (270°); it arrives into Easter Island heading west (290°). That is 20° 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 532 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

From

SCL

## Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez

Santiago, Chile · South America

33.4°S, 70.8°W

[SCL airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/scl) [Flights to Santiago →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/santiago)

To

IPC

## Mataveri

Easter Island, Chile · South America

27.2°S, 109.4°W

[IPC airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/ipc)

## Santiago to Easter Island, asked and answered

**How far is Santiago to Easter Island?**
Santiago to Easter Island (SCL to IPC) is 3,752 km, or 2,332 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Santiago to Easter Island?**
About 5h 10m 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 Santiago to Easter Island flight take?**
The great circle passes over 3,668 km of open water. It reaches 33.4°S 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

[GRU → SCL São Paulo to Santiago 2,615 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/gru-to-scl) [LIM → SCL Lima to Santiago 2,462 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lim-to-scl) [EZE → SCL Buenos Aires to Santiago 1,138 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/eze-to-scl) [SCL → SYD Santiago to Sydney 11,340 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/scl-to-syd) [LHR → AMM London to Amman 3,683 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-amm) [ICN → BKK Seoul to Bangkok 3,669 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/icn-to-bkk)

## 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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