Distance from Bogotá to Lagos
The great-circle distance between Bogotá, Colombia and Lagos, Nigeria is 8,570 km (5,325 mi · 4,627 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,570 km · 5,325 mi · 4,627 nmi
- Initial bearing Bogotá → Lagos
- 84° (E)
- Initial bearing Lagos → Bogotá
- 273° (W)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 10 h 44 min
- Time zones
- Bogotá UTC-05:00 · Lagos UTC+01:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 312 min — the sun rises later in Bogotá
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
- Bogotá
- 4.6097, -74.0817
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 10:54 UTC / 23:12 UTC
- Lagos
- 6.4541, 3.3947
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:42 UTC / 18:04 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.