--- title: "Vancouver to Calgary (YVR → YYC): distance and flight time · Orbit" description: "Vancouver to Calgary is 687 km (427 mi) great circle, an estimated 1h 21m 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/yvr-to-yyc --- YVR → YYC # Vancouver to Calgary: distance, flight time and the route it really takes Vancouver to Calgary is 687 km of great circle — 427 mi — and an estimated 1h 21m in the air. Both ends are in North America. **Great circle** 687 km 427 mi **Estimated in the air** 1h 21m block time **Furthest from equator** 51.1°N at 100% along **One lap of Earth** 1.7% of 40,075 km Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 271st longest. The Vancouver to Calgary route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe ## What the aircraft actually flies over From Vancouver the path crosses Canada. The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 51.1°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 Vancouver the aircraft points east (68°); it arrives into Calgary heading east (75°). 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. One economy seat on it is about 102 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming. [YVR–YYC carbon footprint →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-carbon-calculator?from=YVR&to=YYC) [Map this route →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=YVR-YYC) From YVR ## Vancouver Vancouver, Canada · North America 49.2°N, 123.2°W [YVR airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/yvr) [Flights to Vancouver →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/vancouver) To YYC ## Calgary Calgary, Canada · North America 51.1°N, 114.0°W [YYC airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/yyc) ## Vancouver to Calgary, asked and answered **How far is Vancouver to Calgary?** Vancouver to Calgary (YVR to YYC) is 687 km, or 427 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports. **How long is the flight from Vancouver to Calgary?** About 1h 21m 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 Vancouver to Calgary flight take?** The great circle passes over Canada. It reaches 51.1°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? 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 [YYZ → YVR Toronto to Vancouver 3,346 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yyz-to-yvr) [YVR → NRT Vancouver to Tokyo 7,503 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yvr-to-nrt) [YVR → HKG Vancouver to Hong Kong 10,269 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yvr-to-hkg) [YVR → SYD Vancouver to Sydney 12,501 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yvr-to-syd) [BKK → HKT Bangkok to Phuket 674 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bkk-to-hkt) [SYD → MEL Sydney to Melbourne 706 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-mel) ## 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/yvr-to-yyc for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt