Distance from Kuala Lumpur to Los Angeles
Flying the shortest possible route, Los Angeles lies 14,137 km (8,784 miles, 7,633 nautical miles) from Kuala Lumpur — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 14,137 km · 8,784 mi · 7,633 nmi
- Initial bearing Kuala Lumpur → Los Angeles
- 42° (NE)
- Initial bearing Los Angeles → Kuala Lumpur
- 306° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 17 h 17 min
- Time zones
- Kuala Lumpur UTC+08:00 · Los Angeles UTC-07:00 (-15 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 838 min — the sun rises earlier in Kuala Lumpur
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
- Kuala Lumpur
- 3.1412, 101.6865
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 23:13 UTC / 11:27 UTC
- Los Angeles
- 34.0522, -118.2437
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 13:10 UTC / 02:49 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.