Distance between Istanbul and Toronto (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Istanbul (Turkey) and Toronto (Canada) is 5,088 miles (8,188 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
5,088 miles
8,188 km · straight line
Heading from Istanbul
314° (northwest)
initial compass bearing to Toronto
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~10 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.
IstanbulTorontoThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Istanbul to Toronto at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 5,088 miles (8,188 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from Istanbul
- 314° (northwest) to Toronto
- Heading from Toronto
- 48° (northeast) to Istanbul
- Midpoint
- 57.2918° N, 23.5242° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 10 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.
- Istanbul, Turkey
- 41.0138° N, 28.9497° E (city centre)
- Toronto, Canada
- 43.7064° N, 79.3986° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Istanbul
- Istanbul to Cairo768 miles
- Istanbul to Rome852 miles
- Istanbul to Berlin1,079 miles
- Istanbul to Amsterdam1,374 miles
- Istanbul to Barcelona1,387 miles
- Istanbul to Paris1,400 miles
Other distances from Toronto
- Toronto to Ottawa217 miles
- Toronto to Montréal312 miles
- Toronto to New York345 miles
- Toronto to Chicago437 miles
- Toronto to Miami1,240 miles
- Toronto to Edmonton1,677 miles
Questions
Is 5,088 miles (8,188 km) the driving distance from Istanbul to Toronto?
No. 5,088 miles (8,188 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 Istanbul and Toronto measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Istanbul's centre (41.0138° N, 28.9497° E) to Toronto's (43.7064° N, 79.3986° 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.