Distance from Ho Chi Minh City to São Paulo
Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) and São Paulo (Brazil) are 16,851 km apart — that's 10,471 miles or 9,099 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 16,851 km · 10,471 mi · 9,099 nmi
- Initial bearing Ho Chi Minh City → São Paulo
- 240° (WSW)
- Initial bearing São Paulo → Ho Chi Minh City
- 112° (ESE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 20 h 29 min
- Time zones
- Ho Chi Minh City UTC+07:00 · São Paulo UTC-03:00 (-10 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 655 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
- São Paulo
- -23.5475, -46.6361
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 09:38 UTC / 20:48 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.