Distance between Lisbon and London (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Lisbon (Portugal) and London (United Kingdom) is 985 miles (1,585 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
985 miles
1,585 km · straight line
Heading from Lisbon
23° (north-northeast)
initial compass bearing to London
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~2 h
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
LisbonLondonThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Lisbon to London at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 985 miles (1,585 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from Lisbon
- 23° (north-northeast) to London
- Heading from London
- 210° (south-southwest) to Lisbon
- Midpoint
- 45.2046° N, 5.1463° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 2 h 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.
- Lisbon, Portugal
- 38.7251° N, 9.1498° W (city centre)
- London, United Kingdom
- 51.5085° N, 0.1257° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Lisbon
- Lisbon to Madrid313 miles
- Lisbon to Barcelona625 miles
- Lisbon to Paris903 miles
- Lisbon to Amsterdam1,158 miles
- Lisbon to Rome1,159 miles
- Lisbon to Berlin1,437 miles
Other distances from London
- London to Birmingham101 miles
- London to Manchester163 miles
- London to Liverpool178 miles
- London to Paris214 miles
- London to Amsterdam222 miles
- London to Edinburgh332 miles
Questions
Is 985 miles (1,585 km) the driving distance from Lisbon to London?
No. 985 miles (1,585 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 Lisbon and London measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Lisbon's centre (38.7251° N, 9.1498° W) to London's (51.5085° N, 0.1257° 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.