Distance from Berlin to Tokyo
Berlin (Germany) and Tokyo (Japan) are 8,915 km apart — that's 5,540 miles or 4,814 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,915 km · 5,540 mi · 4,814 nmi
- Initial bearing Berlin → Tokyo
- 42° (NE)
- Initial bearing Tokyo → Berlin
- 330° (NNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 11 h 09 min
- Time zones
- Berlin UTC+02:00 · Tokyo UTC+09:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 463 min — the sun rises later in Berlin
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
- Berlin
- 52.5244, 13.4105
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 03:38 UTC / 18:48 UTC
- Tokyo
- 35.6895, 139.6917
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 19:55 UTC / 09:41 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.