Distance between Mumbai and Tokyo (straight line)

The straight-line distance between Mumbai (India) and Tokyo (Japan) is 6,724 km (4,178 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

6,724 km

4,178 miles · straight line

Heading from Mumbai

59° (east-northeast)

initial compass bearing to Tokyo

Flight time estimate, not a booking

~8 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.

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

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Mumbai to Tokyo at a glance

Straight-line distance
6,724 km (4,178 miles), as the crow flies
Heading from Mumbai
59° (east-northeast) to Tokyo
Heading from Tokyo
273° (west) to Mumbai
Midpoint
31.7846° N, 103.4316° E, halfway along the straight line
Flight time estimate, not a booking
About 8 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.
Mumbai, India
19.0728° N, 72.8826° E (city centre)
Tokyo, Japan
35.6895° N, 139.6917° E (city centre)

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Questions

Is 6,724 km (4,178 miles) the driving distance from Mumbai to Tokyo?

No. 6,724 km (4,178 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 Mumbai and Tokyo measured?

Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Mumbai's centre (19.0728° N, 72.8826° E) to Tokyo's (35.6895° N, 139.6917° 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.