Distance between Amsterdam and Mumbai (straight line)

The straight-line distance between Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and Mumbai (India) is 6,854 km (4,259 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

6,854 km

4,259 miles · straight line

Heading from Amsterdam

95° (east)

initial compass bearing to Mumbai

Flight time estimate, not a booking

~8 h 35 min

at about 800 km/h, in the air only

Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.

AmsterdamMumbaiThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.

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Amsterdam to Mumbai at a glance

Straight-line distance
6,854 km (4,259 miles), as the crow flies
Heading from Amsterdam
95° (east) to Mumbai
Heading from Mumbai
320° (northwest) to Amsterdam
Midpoint
40.6455° N, 47.1400° E, halfway along the straight line
Flight time estimate, not a booking
About 8 h 35 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)
Mumbai, India
19.0728° N, 72.8826° E (city centre)

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Questions

Is 6,854 km (4,259 miles) the driving distance from Amsterdam to Mumbai?

No. 6,854 km (4,259 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 Mumbai measured?

Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Amsterdam's centre (52.3740° N, 4.8897° E) to Mumbai's (19.0728° N, 72.8826° 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.