--- title: "Quito to Galápagos (UIO → GPS): distance and flight time · Orbit" description: "Quito to Galápagos is 1,325 km (823 mi) great circle, an estimated 2h 09m 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/uio-to-gps --- UIO → GPS # Quito to Galápagos: distance, flight time and the route it really takes Mariscal Sucre to Seymour Galapagos Ecological is 1,325 km of great circle — 823 mi — and an estimated 2h 09m in the air. Both ends are in South America. **Great circle** 1,325 km 823 mi **Estimated in the air** 2h 09m block time **Furthest from equator** 0.5°S at 100% along **One lap of Earth** 3.3% of 40,075 km Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 229th longest. The Quito to Galápagos route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe ## What the aircraft actually flies over From Quito the path crosses Ecuador, then 1,106 km of open water. The path stays within 0.5°S of the equator for its whole length, so the aircraft tracks almost due west the entire way. 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: west out of Quito, west into Galápagos. Over this distance the curve has too little room to bend the compass. One economy seat on it is about 196 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming. [UIO–GPS carbon footprint →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-carbon-calculator?from=UIO&to=GPS) [Map this route →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=UIO-GPS) From UIO ## Mariscal Sucre Quito, Ecuador · South America 0.1°S, 78.4°W [UIO airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/uio) To GPS ## Seymour Galapagos Ecological Galápagos, Ecuador · South America 0.5°S, 90.3°W [GPS airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/gps) ## Quito to Galápagos, asked and answered **How far is Quito to Galápagos?** Quito to Galápagos (UIO to GPS) is 1,325 km, or 823 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports. **How long is the flight from Quito to Galápagos?** About 2h 09m 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 Quito to Galápagos flight take?** The great circle passes over Ecuador, then 1,106 km of open water. It reaches 0.5°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 [BOG → UIO Bogotá to Quito 712 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bog-to-uio) [DEL → CCU Delhi to Kolkata 1,313 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-ccu) [LHR → PMI London to Palma 1,348 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-pmi) [MEX → CUN Mexico City to Cancún 1,285 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mex-to-cun) [OTP → MXP Bucharest to Milan 1,366 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-mxp) [LHR → VIE London to Vienna 1,275 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-vie) ## 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/uio-to-gps for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt