Distance between London and Paris (straight line)
The straight-line distance between London (United Kingdom) and Paris (France) is 214 miles (344 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
214 miles
344 km · straight line
Heading from London
148° (south-southeast)
initial compass bearing to Paris
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~25 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
LondonParisThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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London to Paris at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 214 miles (344 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from London
- 148° (south-southeast) to Paris
- Heading from Paris
- 330° (north-northwest) to London
- Midpoint
- 50.1875° N, 1.1459° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 25 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.
- London, United Kingdom
- 51.5085° N, 0.1257° W (city centre)
- Paris, France
- 48.8534° N, 2.3488° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from London
- London to Birmingham101 miles
- London to Manchester163 miles
- London to Liverpool178 miles
- London to Amsterdam222 miles
- London to Edinburgh332 miles
- London to Glasgow345 miles
Other distances from Paris
- Paris to Amsterdam268 miles
- Paris to Barcelona516 miles
- Paris to Berlin546 miles
- Paris to Madrid654 miles
- Paris to Rome688 miles
- Paris to Lisbon903 miles
Questions
Is 214 miles (344 km) the driving distance from London to Paris?
No. 214 miles (344 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 London and Paris measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from London's centre (51.5085° N, 0.1257° W) to Paris's (48.8534° N, 2.3488° 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.