Distance from Rome to Seoul
Flying the shortest possible route, Seoul lies 8,966 km (5,571 miles, 4,841 nautical miles) from Rome — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,966 km · 5,571 mi · 4,841 nmi
- Initial bearing Rome → Seoul
- 47° (NE)
- Initial bearing Seoul → Rome
- 317° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 11 h 12 min
- Time zones
- Rome UTC+02:00 · Seoul UTC+09:00 (+7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 449 min — the sun rises later in Rome
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
- Rome
- 41.8919, 12.5113
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:11 UTC / 18:22 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.