Distance between Chennai and Hyderabad (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Chennai and Hyderabad, both in India, is 516 km (321 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
516 km
321 miles · straight line
Heading from Chennai
338° (north-northwest)
initial compass bearing to Hyderabad
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~40 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
ChennaiHyderabadThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Chennai to Hyderabad at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 516 km (321 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Chennai
- 338° (north-northwest) to Hyderabad
- Heading from Hyderabad
- 157° (south-southeast) to Chennai
- Midpoint
- 15.2378° N, 79.3767° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 40 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)
- Hyderabad, India
- 17.3840° N, 78.4564° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Chennai
- Chennai to Bengaluru291 km
- Chennai to Mumbai1,033 km
- Chennai to Kolkata1,356 km
- Chennai to Delhi1,759 km
Other distances from Hyderabad
- Hyderabad to Bengaluru499 km
- Hyderabad to Mumbai618 km
- Hyderabad to Kolkata1,184 km
- Hyderabad to Delhi1,259 km
Questions
Is 516 km (321 miles) the driving distance from Chennai to Hyderabad?
No. 516 km (321 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 Hyderabad measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Chennai's centre (13.0878° N, 80.2785° E) to Hyderabad's (17.3840° N, 78.4564° 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.