Distance from Rio de Janeiro to Seoul
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Seoul (South Korea) are 18,134 km apart — that's 11,268 miles or 9,791 nautical miles, measured along the great circle (the shortest path over the Earth's surface).
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 18,134 km · 11,268 mi · 9,791 nmi
- Initial bearing Rio de Janeiro → Seoul
- 28° (NNE)
- Initial bearing Seoul → Rio de Janeiro
- 327° (NNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 22 h 00 min
- Time zones
- Rio de Janeiro UTC-03:00 · Seoul UTC+09:00 (+12 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 761 min — the sun rises later in Rio de Janeiro
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
- Rio de Janeiro
- -22.9064, -43.1822
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 09:24 UTC / 20:35 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.