Distance from Mumbai to Rio de Janeiro
Mumbai (India) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) are 13,415 km apart — that's 8,336 miles or 7,244 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 13,415 km · 8,336 mi · 7,244 nmi
- Initial bearing Mumbai → Rio de Janeiro
- 254° (WSW)
- Initial bearing Rio de Janeiro → Mumbai
- 81° (E)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 16 h 26 min
- Time zones
- Mumbai UTC+05:30 · Rio de Janeiro UTC-03:00 (-8.5 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 515 min — the sun rises earlier in Mumbai
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
- Mumbai
- 19.0728, 72.8826
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 00:48 UTC / 13:42 UTC
- Rio de Janeiro
- -22.9064, -43.1822
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 09:24 UTC / 20:35 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.