Distance from Kuala Lumpur to Madrid
Flying the shortest possible route, Madrid lies 11,071 km (6,879 miles, 5,978 nautical miles) from Kuala Lumpur — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,071 km · 6,879 mi · 5,978 nmi
- Initial bearing Kuala Lumpur → Madrid
- 312° (NW)
- Initial bearing Madrid → Kuala Lumpur
- 77° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 13 h 41 min
- Time zones
- Kuala Lumpur UTC+08:00 · Madrid UTC+02:00 (-6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 367 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
- Madrid
- 40.4165, -3.7026
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:19 UTC / 19:23 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.