Distance between Paris and Toronto (straight line)

The straight-line distance between Paris (France) and Toronto (Canada) is 3,727 miles (5,998 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

3,727 miles

5,998 km · straight line

Heading from Paris

298° (west-northwest)

initial compass bearing to Toronto

Flight time estimate, not a booking

~7 h 30 min

at about 800 km/h, in the air only

Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.

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

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Paris to Toronto at a glance

Straight-line distance
3,727 miles (5,998 km), as the crow flies
Heading from Paris
298° (west-northwest) to Toronto
Heading from Toronto
54° (northeast) to Paris
Midpoint
54.1067° N, 40.8542° W, halfway along the straight line
Flight time estimate, not a booking
About 7 h 30 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.
Paris, France
48.8534° N, 2.3488° E (city centre)
Toronto, Canada
43.7064° N, 79.3986° W (city centre)

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Questions

Is 3,727 miles (5,998 km) the driving distance from Paris to Toronto?

No. 3,727 miles (5,998 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 Paris and Toronto measured?

Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Paris's centre (48.8534° N, 2.3488° E) to Toronto's (43.7064° N, 79.3986° 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.