Distance from Jakarta to Seoul
The great-circle distance between Jakarta, Indonesia and Seoul, South Korea is 5,297 km (3,291 mi · 2,860 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 5,297 km · 3,291 mi · 2,860 nmi
- Initial bearing Jakarta → Seoul
- 22° (NNE)
- Initial bearing Seoul → Jakarta
- 208° (SSW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 6 h 53 min
- Time zones
- Jakarta UTC+07:00 · Seoul UTC+09:00 (+2 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 141 min — the sun rises later in Jakarta
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
- Jakarta
- -6.2146, 106.8451
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 23:03 UTC / 10:55 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.