Distance between Amsterdam and Chicago (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and Chicago (United States) is 4,108 miles (6,611 km), as the crow flies, measured from one city centre to the other. It is the shortest path over the Earth's surface; any road between them is longer.
Straight-line distance
4,108 miles
6,611 km · straight line
Heading from Amsterdam
300° (west-northwest)
initial compass bearing to Chicago
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~8 h 15 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
AmsterdamChicagoThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Amsterdam to Chicago at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 4,108 miles (6,611 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from Amsterdam
- 300° (west-northwest) to Chicago
- Heading from Chicago
- 45° (northeast) to Amsterdam
- Midpoint
- 57.1565° N, 47.2976° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 8 h 15 min in the air at a cruising speed of 800 km/h along the straight line. Take-off, landing, the real flight path and any stops add more.
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 52.3740° N, 4.8897° E (city centre)
- Chicago, United States
- 41.8500° N, 87.6500° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Amsterdam
- Amsterdam to London222 miles
- Amsterdam to Paris268 miles
- Amsterdam to Berlin359 miles
- Amsterdam to Barcelona770 miles
- Amsterdam to Rome807 miles
- Amsterdam to Madrid921 miles
Other distances from Chicago
- Chicago to Toronto437 miles
- Chicago to New York712 miles
- Chicago to Houston939 miles
- Chicago to Miami1,189 miles
- Chicago to Las Vegas1,520 miles
- Chicago to Mexico City1,689 miles
Questions
Is 4,108 miles (6,611 km) the driving distance from Amsterdam to Chicago?
No. 4,108 miles (6,611 km) is the straight-line distance between the two city centres, as the crow flies. A road route is always longer, because roads bend around terrain and water, and MapGO does not measure driving distance or travel time.
How is the distance between Amsterdam and Chicago measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Amsterdam's centre (52.3740° N, 4.8897° E) to Chicago's (41.8500° N, 87.6500° W). This is what "straight-line distance" and "as the crow flies" mean on a globe. On a flat map the line can look curved.
How accurate is this distance?
Within about 0.5% for the two centre points. The figure treats the Earth as a sphere (the haversine formula), while the real Earth is slightly flattened, which shifts a long straight-line distance by up to about 0.5%. Measuring from another part of either city changes it more, since a large city can be tens of kilometres across.
Computed by MapGO from each city's centre point (GeoNames) with the haversine formula. All distances on this page are straight lines over the Earth's surface, not road distances.