Distance between Madrid and Mumbai (straight line)

The straight-line distance between Madrid (Spain) and Mumbai (India) is 7,532 km (4,680 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

7,532 km

4,680 miles · straight line

Heading from Madrid

83° (east)

initial compass bearing to Mumbai

Flight time estimate, not a booking

~9 h 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.

MadridMumbaiThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.

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Madrid to Mumbai at a glance

Straight-line distance
7,532 km (4,680 miles), as the crow flies
Heading from Madrid
83° (east) to Mumbai
Heading from Mumbai
307° (northwest) to Madrid
Midpoint
35.9588° N, 39.4495° E, halfway along the straight line
Flight time estimate, not a booking
About 9 h 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.
Madrid, Spain
40.4165° N, 3.7026° W (city centre)
Mumbai, India
19.0728° N, 72.8826° E (city centre)

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Questions

Is 7,532 km (4,680 miles) the driving distance from Madrid to Mumbai?

No. 7,532 km (4,680 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 Madrid and Mumbai measured?

Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Madrid's centre (40.4165° N, 3.7026° W) to Mumbai's (19.0728° N, 72.8826° 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.