Distance from Ho Chi Minh City to Lagos
The great-circle distance between Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Lagos, Nigeria is 11,306 km (7,025 mi · 6,105 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,306 km · 7,025 mi · 6,105 nmi
- Initial bearing Ho Chi Minh City → Lagos
- 279° (W)
- Initial bearing Lagos → Ho Chi Minh City
- 78° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 13 h 58 min
- Time zones
- Ho Chi Minh City UTC+07:00 · Lagos UTC+01:00 (-6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 418 min — the sun rises earlier in Ho Chi Minh City
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
- Ho Chi Minh City
- 10.8230, 106.6296
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:44 UTC / 11:16 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.