Distance between Chicago and São Paulo (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Chicago (United States) and São Paulo (Brazil) is 5,223 miles (8,406 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
5,223 miles
8,406 km · straight line
Heading from Chicago
142° (southeast)
initial compass bearing to São Paulo
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~10 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.
ChicagoSão PauloThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Chicago to São Paulo at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 5,223 miles (8,406 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from Chicago
- 142° (southeast) to São Paulo
- Heading from São Paulo
- 330° (north-northwest) to Chicago
- Midpoint
- 9.7517° N, 64.9280° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 10 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.
- Chicago, United States
- 41.8500° N, 87.6500° W (city centre)
- São Paulo, Brazil
- 23.5475° S, 46.6361° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Chicago
- Chicago to Toronto437 miles
- Chicago to New York712 miles
- Chicago to Houston939 miles
- Chicago to Miami1,189 miles
- Chicago to Las Vegas1,520 miles
- Chicago to Mexico City1,689 miles
Other distances from São Paulo
- São Paulo to Buenos Aires1,041 miles
- São Paulo to Cape Town3,943 miles
- São Paulo to Miami4,080 miles
- São Paulo to Johannesburg4,616 miles
- São Paulo to Mexico City4,617 miles
- São Paulo to New York4,775 miles
Questions
Is 5,223 miles (8,406 km) the driving distance from Chicago to São Paulo?
No. 5,223 miles (8,406 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 Chicago and São Paulo measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Chicago's centre (41.8500° N, 87.6500° W) to São Paulo's (23.5475° S, 46.6361° 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.