Distance between Amsterdam and Toronto (straight line)

The straight-line distance between Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and Toronto (Canada) is 3,714 miles (5,978 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

3,714 miles

5,978 km · straight line

Heading from Amsterdam

297° (west-northwest)

initial compass bearing to Toronto

Flight time estimate, not a booking

~7 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.

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

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Amsterdam to Toronto at a glance

Straight-line distance
3,714 miles (5,978 km), as the crow flies
Heading from Amsterdam
297° (west-northwest) to Toronto
Heading from Toronto
49° (northeast) to Amsterdam
Midpoint
56.2330° N, 41.6163° W, halfway along the straight line
Flight time estimate, not a booking
About 7 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)
Toronto, Canada
43.7064° N, 79.3986° W (city centre)

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Questions

Is 3,714 miles (5,978 km) the driving distance from Amsterdam to Toronto?

No. 3,714 miles (5,978 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 Toronto measured?

Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Amsterdam's centre (52.3740° N, 4.8897° E) to Toronto's (43.7064° N, 79.3986° 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.