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BOG Bogotá ⇄ MEX Mexico City

El Dorado International Airport (Colombia) and Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (Mexico): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance3,159 km1,963 mi1,706 nautical miles
BOG → MEX4 h 45 minestimated block time
MEX → BOG4 h 35 minestimated block time
Clock change−1 hMexico City vs Bogotá, today
Great-circle route from Bogotá (BOG) to Mexico City (MEX)BOGBogotáMEXMexico City
The shortest path over the Earth’s surface (great circle), drawn on a Natural Earth projection. Real flight paths bend around weather, winds and closed airspace.

Flight time each way

BOG → MEX

4 h 45 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 303° (WNW).

Leave Bogotá Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Mexico City Sat 7 Nov, 13:45 local.

MEX → BOG

4 h 35 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 118° (ESE).

Leave Mexico City Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Bogotá Sat 7 Nov, 15:35 local.

The two directions differ by 9 minutes in our estimate: this route is mostly outside the latitudes of the strongest westerlies, so the wind has little effect on the total. How we estimate it.

Distance

Great-circle distance3,159 km · 1,963 mi · 1,706 nmi
Initial heading303° (WNW) from BOG; 118° (ESE) from MEX
Farthest from the equator19.4°N
Crossesneither the equator nor the 180th meridian
Share of the longest possible trip16% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

BOGAmerica/Bogota — UTC−5 now; UTC−5 all year (no daylight saving time)
MEXAmerica/Mexico_City — UTC−6 now; UTC−6 all year (no daylight saving time)
DifferenceMexico City is 1 hour behind Bogotá today.

Jet lag, flying BOG → MEX. Your body clock has to move 1 hour later, like a westward trip. A shift this small rarely causes much jet lag; most people feel normal within a day or so. Flying the other way, the shift is reversed.

General information, not medical advice.

The two airports

BOG El Dorado International AirportBogotá, Colombia · longest runway 12,467 ft3,800 m MEX Mexico City Benito Juárez International AirportMexico City, Mexico · longest runway 12,966 ft3,952 m

More routes from BOG and MEX

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Need a different pair? The flight-time calculator works for any two of 3,245 airports. Not covered: which airlines fly this route, schedules, fares and live status — that data is proprietary and we don’t guess it.

Photos on airport pages are credited there. Estimates are rounded to 5 minutes; typical error about 13 minutes (validation).