Distance from Ho Chi Minh City to Seoul
The great-circle distance between Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Seoul, South Korea is 3,601 km (2,238 mi · 1,945 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 3,601 km · 2,238 mi · 1,945 nmi
- Initial bearing Ho Chi Minh City → Seoul
- 31° (NNE)
- Initial bearing Seoul → Ho Chi Minh City
- 220° (SW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 4 h 54 min
- Time zones
- Ho Chi Minh City UTC+07:00 · Seoul UTC+09:00 (+2 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 121 min — the sun rises later 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
- 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.