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FRA Frankfurt ⇄ HND Tokyo

Frankfurt Main Airport (Germany) and Tokyo Haneda International Airport (Japan): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance9,363 km5,818 mi5,055 nautical miles
FRA → HND11 h 15 minestimated block time
HND → FRA12 h 10 minestimated block time
Clock change+8 hTokyo vs Frankfurt, today
Great-circle route from Frankfurt (FRA) to Tokyo (HND)FRAFrankfurtHNDTokyo
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

FRA → HND

11 h 15 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 38° (NE).

Leave Frankfurt Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Tokyo Sun 8 Nov, 05:15 local +1 day.

HND → FRA

12 h 10 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 331° (NNW).

Leave Tokyo Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Frankfurt Sat 7 Nov, 14:10 local.

FRA-bound flights are the slower direction by about 60 minutes in our estimate: the route runs partly east–west through latitudes where the prevailing westerly winds at cruise height are strong, so heading east rides a tailwind and heading west fights a headwind. How we estimate it.

Distance

Great-circle distance9,363 km · 5,818 mi · 5,055 nmi
Initial heading38° (NE) from FRA; 331° (NNW) from HND
Farthest from the equator66.7°N — the path arcs north of both airports
Crossesneither the equator nor the 180th meridian
Share of the longest possible trip47% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

FRAEurope/Berlin — UTC+1 now; UTC+1 standard time, UTC+2 during daylight saving time
HNDAsia/Tokyo — UTC+9 now; UTC+9 all year (no daylight saving time)
DifferenceTokyo is 8 hours ahead of Frankfurt today; +8 h in January and +7 h in July because daylight saving time starts and ends on different dates (or not at all).

Jet lag, flying FRA → HND. Your body clock has to move 8 hours earlier, like an eastward trip. A common rule of thumb is that the body clock adjusts by roughly one time zone a day, so expect up to about 8 days to fully adjust. Shifting earlier (as here) is usually the harder direction; morning daylight at the destination helps. Flying the other way, the shift is reversed.

General information, not medical advice.

The two airports

FRA Frankfurt Main AirportFrankfurt, Germany · longest runway 13,123 ft4,000 m HND Tokyo Haneda International AirportTokyo, Japan · longest runway 11,024 ft3,360 m

More routes from FRA and HND

FRABER Frankfurt – Berlin 431 km268 mi · 1 h 30 min FRADEL Frankfurt – Delhi 6,122 km3,804 mi · 7 h 25 min ORDFRA Chicago – Frankfurt 6,971 km4,331 mi · 8 h 25 min DFWFRA Dallas–Fort Worth – Frankfurt 8,258 km5,131 mi · 9 h 50 min FRAPVG Frankfurt – Shanghai 8,859 km5,505 mi · 10 h 30 min FRASIN Frankfurt – Singapore 10,280 km6,388 mi · 12 h 05 min HNDITM Tokyo – Osaka 404 km251 mi · 1 h 35 min HNDOKA Tokyo – Okinawa (Naha) 1,555 km966 mi · 2 h 55 min HNLHND Honolulu – Tokyo 6,191 km3,847 mi · 8 h 45 min MELHND Melbourne – Tokyo 8,158 km5,069 mi · 10 h 20 min LHRHND London – Tokyo 9,592 km5,960 mi · 11 h 35 min JFKHND New York – Tokyo 10,875 km6,758 mi · 13 h 55 min

Routes of a similar length

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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).