Distance between Amsterdam and Istanbul (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and Istanbul (Turkey) is 2,211 km (1,374 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
2,211 km
1,374 miles · straight line
Heading from Amsterdam
115° (east-southeast)
initial compass bearing to Istanbul
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~2 h 45 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
AmsterdamIstanbulThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Amsterdam to Istanbul at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 2,211 km (1,374 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Amsterdam
- 115° (east-southeast) to Istanbul
- Heading from Istanbul
- 313° (northwest) to Amsterdam
- Midpoint
- 47.3213° N, 18.2079° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 2 h 45 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)
- Istanbul, Turkey
- 41.0138° N, 28.9497° 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 Istanbul
- Istanbul to Cairo1,235 km
- Istanbul to Rome1,371 km
- Istanbul to Berlin1,736 km
- Istanbul to Barcelona2,233 km
- Istanbul to Paris2,253 km
- Istanbul to London2,498 km
Questions
Is 2,211 km (1,374 miles) the driving distance from Amsterdam to Istanbul?
No. 2,211 km (1,374 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 Istanbul measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Amsterdam's centre (52.3740° N, 4.8897° E) to Istanbul's (41.0138° N, 28.9497° 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.