Distance from Buenos Aires to Seoul
The great-circle distance between Buenos Aires, Argentina and Seoul, South Korea is 19,433 km (12,075 mi · 10,493 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 19,433 km · 12,075 mi · 10,493 nmi
- Initial bearing Buenos Aires → Seoul
- 306° (NW)
- Initial bearing Seoul → Buenos Aires
- 57° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 23 h 31 min
- Time zones
- Buenos Aires UTC-03:00 · Seoul UTC+09:00 (+12 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 840 min — the sun rises later in Buenos Aires
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
- Buenos Aires
- -34.6131, -58.3772
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 10:42 UTC / 21:18 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.