Distance between Mexico City and São Paulo (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Mexico City (Mexico) and São Paulo (Brazil) is 7,431 km (4,617 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
7,431 km
4,617 miles · straight line
Heading from Mexico City
128° (southeast)
initial compass bearing to São Paulo
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~9 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.
Mexico CitySão PauloThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Mexico City to São Paulo at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 7,431 km (4,617 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Mexico City
- 128° (southeast) to São Paulo
- Heading from São Paulo
- 306° (northwest) to Mexico City
- Midpoint
- 2.2959° S, 73.2818° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 9 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.
- Mexico City, Mexico
- 19.4285° N, 99.1277° W (city centre)
- São Paulo, Brazil
- 23.5475° S, 46.6361° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Mexico City
- Mexico City to Miami2,065 km
- Mexico City to Las Vegas2,431 km
- Mexico City to Los Angeles2,491 km
- Mexico City to Chicago2,718 km
- Mexico City to San Francisco3,038 km
- Mexico City to Toronto3,265 km
Other distances from São Paulo
- São Paulo to Buenos Aires1,675 km
- São Paulo to Cape Town6,345 km
- São Paulo to Miami6,567 km
- São Paulo to Johannesburg7,429 km
- São Paulo to New York7,685 km
- São Paulo to Lisbon7,949 km
Questions
Is 7,431 km (4,617 miles) the driving distance from Mexico City to São Paulo?
No. 7,431 km (4,617 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 Mexico City and São Paulo measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Mexico City's centre (19.4285° N, 99.1277° W) to São Paulo's (23.5475° S, 46.6361° 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.