Distance between Amsterdam and Los Angeles (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and Los Angeles (United States) is 5,554 miles (8,939 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
5,554 miles
8,939 km · straight line
Heading from Amsterdam
315° (northwest)
initial compass bearing to Los Angeles
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~11 h 10 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
AmsterdamLos AngelesThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Amsterdam to Los Angeles at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 5,554 miles (8,939 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from Amsterdam
- 315° (northwest) to Los Angeles
- Heading from Los Angeles
- 31° (north-northeast) to Amsterdam
- Midpoint
- 62.2437° N, 72.3095° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 11 h 10 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)
- Los Angeles, United States
- 34.0522° N, 118.2437° 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 Los Angeles
- Los Angeles to Las Vegas229 miles
- Los Angeles to San Francisco347 miles
- Los Angeles to Houston1,371 miles
- Los Angeles to Mexico City1,548 miles
- Los Angeles to Chicago1,741 miles
- Los Angeles to Toronto2,171 miles
Questions
Is 5,554 miles (8,939 km) the driving distance from Amsterdam to Los Angeles?
No. 5,554 miles (8,939 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 Los Angeles measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Amsterdam's centre (52.3740° N, 4.8897° E) to Los Angeles's (34.0522° N, 118.2437° 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.