Distance between Bangkok and Johannesburg (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Bangkok (Thailand) and Johannesburg (South Africa) is 8,999 km (5,591 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
8,999 km
5,591 miles · straight line
Heading from Bangkok
240° (west-southwest)
initial compass bearing to Johannesburg
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~11 h 15 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
BangkokJohannesburgThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Bangkok to Johannesburg at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 8,999 km (5,591 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Bangkok
- 240° (west-southwest) to Johannesburg
- Heading from Johannesburg
- 70° (east-northeast) to Bangkok
- Midpoint
- 7.6965° S, 65.9364° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 11 h 15 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.
- Bangkok, Thailand
- 13.7540° N, 100.5014° E (city centre)
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- 26.2023° S, 28.0436° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Bangkok
- Bangkok to Singapore1,434 km
- Bangkok to Hong Kong1,727 km
- Bangkok to Delhi2,916 km
- Bangkok to Mumbai3,001 km
- Bangkok to Tokyo4,603 km
- Bangkok to Dubai4,879 km
Other distances from Johannesburg
- Johannesburg to Pretoria53 km
- Johannesburg to Bloemfontein371 km
- Johannesburg to Durban501 km
- Johannesburg to Gqeberha894 km
- Johannesburg to Cape Town1,262 km
- Johannesburg to Cairo6,266 km
Questions
Is 8,999 km (5,591 miles) the driving distance from Bangkok to Johannesburg?
No. 8,999 km (5,591 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 Bangkok and Johannesburg measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Bangkok's centre (13.7540° N, 100.5014° E) to Johannesburg's (26.2023° S, 28.0436° 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.