Distance between Bengaluru and Kolkata (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Bengaluru and Kolkata, both in India, is 1,560 km (969 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
1,560 km
969 miles · straight line
Heading from Bengaluru
45° (northeast)
initial compass bearing to Kolkata
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~1 h 55 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
BengaluruKolkataThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Bengaluru to Kolkata at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 1,560 km (969 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Bengaluru
- 45° (northeast) to Kolkata
- Heading from Kolkata
- 229° (southwest) to Bengaluru
- Midpoint
- 17.8410° N, 82.8332° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 1 h 55 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.
- Bengaluru, India
- 12.9719° N, 77.5937° E (city centre)
- Kolkata, India
- 22.5626° N, 88.3630° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Bengaluru
- Bengaluru to Chennai291 km
- Bengaluru to Hyderabad499 km
- Bengaluru to Mumbai845 km
- Bengaluru to Delhi1,744 km
Other distances from Kolkata
- Kolkata to Hyderabad1,184 km
- Kolkata to Delhi1,304 km
- Kolkata to Chennai1,356 km
- Kolkata to Mumbai1,654 km
Questions
Is 1,560 km (969 miles) the driving distance from Bengaluru to Kolkata?
No. 1,560 km (969 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 Bengaluru and Kolkata measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Bengaluru's centre (12.9719° N, 77.5937° E) to Kolkata's (22.5626° N, 88.3630° 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.