Distance between Chennai and Delhi (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Chennai and Delhi, both in India, is 1,759 km (1,093 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
1,759 km
1,093 miles · straight line
Heading from Chennai
350° (north)
initial compass bearing to Delhi
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~2 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.
ChennaiDelhiThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Chennai to Delhi at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 1,759 km (1,093 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Chennai
- 350° (north) to Delhi
- Heading from Delhi
- 169° (south) to Chennai
- Midpoint
- 20.8766° N, 78.8344° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 2 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.
- Chennai, India
- 13.0878° N, 80.2785° E (city centre)
- Delhi, India
- 28.6519° N, 77.2315° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Chennai
- Chennai to Bengaluru291 km
- Chennai to Hyderabad516 km
- Chennai to Mumbai1,033 km
- Chennai to Kolkata1,356 km
Other distances from Delhi
- Delhi to Mumbai1,153 km
- Delhi to Hyderabad1,259 km
- Delhi to Kolkata1,304 km
- Delhi to Bengaluru1,744 km
- Delhi to Dubai2,207 km
- Delhi to Bangkok2,916 km
Questions
Is 1,759 km (1,093 miles) the driving distance from Chennai to Delhi?
No. 1,759 km (1,093 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 Chennai and Delhi measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Chennai's centre (13.0878° N, 80.2785° E) to Delhi's (28.6519° N, 77.2315° 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.