Distance from Bangkok to Seoul
Bangkok (Thailand) and Seoul (South Korea) are 3,722 km apart — that's 2,313 miles or 2,010 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 3,722 km · 2,313 mi · 2,010 nmi
- Initial bearing Bangkok → Seoul
- 40° (NE)
- Initial bearing Seoul → Bangkok
- 232° (SW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 5 h 02 min
- Time zones
- Bangkok UTC+07:00 · Seoul UTC+09:00 (+2 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 142 min — the sun rises later in Bangkok
Flight time is a cruise-speed approximation (no routing/wind); driving distance depends on roads and is typically 20–40% longer than great-circle.
The two cities
- Bangkok
- 13.7540, 100.5014
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 23:05 UTC / 11:44 UTC
- Seoul
- 37.5660, 126.9784
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 20:42 UTC / 10:35 UTC
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Distances here are straight-line (great-circle). Road routes typically run 1.2–1.4× longer — here's why, with the visual.