Distance between Amsterdam and Dubai (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates) is 5,174 km (3,215 miles), 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
5,174 km
3,215 miles · straight line
Heading from Amsterdam
106° (east-southeast)
initial compass bearing to Dubai
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~6 h 30 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
AmsterdamDubaiThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Amsterdam to Dubai at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 5,174 km (3,215 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Amsterdam
- 106° (east-southeast) to Dubai
- Heading from Dubai
- 320° (northwest) to Amsterdam
- Midpoint
- 41.4317° N, 35.3369° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 6 h 30 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)
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- 25.0772° N, 55.3093° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Amsterdam
- Amsterdam to London357 km
- Amsterdam to Paris431 km
- Amsterdam to Berlin577 km
- Amsterdam to Barcelona1,239 km
- Amsterdam to Rome1,299 km
- Amsterdam to Madrid1,481 km
Other distances from Dubai
- Dubai to Mumbai1,928 km
- Dubai to Delhi2,207 km
- Dubai to Cairo2,430 km
- Dubai to Istanbul3,009 km
- Dubai to Rome4,331 km
- Dubai to Berlin4,638 km
Questions
Is 5,174 km (3,215 miles) the driving distance from Amsterdam to Dubai?
No. 5,174 km (3,215 miles) 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 Dubai measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Amsterdam's centre (52.3740° N, 4.8897° E) to Dubai's (25.0772° N, 55.3093° E). 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.