Distance between Lisbon and Rome (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Lisbon (Portugal) and Rome (Italy) is 1,865 km (1,159 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
1,865 km
1,159 miles · straight line
Heading from Lisbon
72° (east-northeast)
initial compass bearing to Rome
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~2 h 20 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
LisbonRomeThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Lisbon to Rome at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 1,865 km (1,159 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Lisbon
- 72° (east-northeast) to Rome
- Heading from Rome
- 266° (west) to Lisbon
- Midpoint
- 40.8170° N, 1.4237° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 2 h 20 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.
- Lisbon, Portugal
- 38.7251° N, 9.1498° W (city centre)
- Rome, Italy
- 41.8919° N, 12.5113° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Lisbon
- Lisbon to Madrid503 km
- Lisbon to Barcelona1,006 km
- Lisbon to Paris1,453 km
- Lisbon to London1,585 km
- Lisbon to Amsterdam1,863 km
- Lisbon to Berlin2,313 km
Other distances from Rome
- Rome to Barcelona862 km
- Rome to Paris1,107 km
- Rome to Berlin1,184 km
- Rome to Amsterdam1,299 km
- Rome to Madrid1,365 km
- Rome to Istanbul1,371 km
Questions
Is 1,865 km (1,159 miles) the driving distance from Lisbon to Rome?
No. 1,865 km (1,159 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 Lisbon and Rome measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Lisbon's centre (38.7251° N, 9.1498° W) to Rome's (41.8919° N, 12.5113° 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.