Distance between Miami and São Paulo (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Miami (United States) and São Paulo (Brazil) is 4,080 miles (6,567 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
4,080 miles
6,567 km · straight line
Heading from Miami
144° (southeast)
initial compass bearing to São Paulo
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~8 h 10 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
MiamiSão PauloThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Miami to São Paulo at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 4,080 miles (6,567 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from Miami
- 144° (southeast) to São Paulo
- Heading from São Paulo
- 325° (northwest) to Miami
- Midpoint
- 1.1629° N, 63.2607° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 8 h 10 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.
- Miami, United States
- 25.7743° N, 80.1937° W (city centre)
- São Paulo, Brazil
- 23.5475° S, 46.6361° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Miami
- Miami to Houston967 miles
- Miami to New York1,092 miles
- Miami to Chicago1,189 miles
- Miami to Toronto1,240 miles
- Miami to Mexico City1,283 miles
- Miami to Las Vegas2,177 miles
Other distances from São Paulo
- São Paulo to Buenos Aires1,041 miles
- São Paulo to Cape Town3,943 miles
- São Paulo to Johannesburg4,616 miles
- São Paulo to Mexico City4,617 miles
- São Paulo to New York4,775 miles
- São Paulo to Lisbon4,939 miles
Questions
Is 4,080 miles (6,567 km) the driving distance from Miami to São Paulo?
No. 4,080 miles (6,567 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 Miami and São Paulo measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Miami's centre (25.7743° N, 80.1937° 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.