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HEL Helsinki ⇄ ARN Stockholm

Helsinki Vantaa Airport (Finland) and Stockholm-Arlanda Airport (Sweden): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance398 km247 mi215 nautical miles
HEL → ARN1 h 30 minestimated block time
ARN → HEL1 h 30 minestimated block time
Clock change−1 hStockholm vs Helsinki, today
Great-circle route from Helsinki (HEL) to Stockholm (ARN)HELHelsinkiARNStockholm
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

HEL → ARN

1 h 30 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 262° (W).

Leave Helsinki Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Stockholm Sat 7 Nov, 10:30 local.

ARN → HEL

1 h 30 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 76° (ENE).

Leave Stockholm Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Helsinki Sat 7 Nov, 12:30 local.

The two directions differ by 3 minutes in our estimate: this route is short, so the wind has little effect on the total. How we estimate it.

Distance

Great-circle distance398 km · 247 mi · 215 nmi
Initial heading262° (W) from HEL; 76° (ENE) from ARN
Farthest from the equator60.3°N
Crossesneither the equator nor the 180th meridian
Share of the longest possible trip2% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

HELEurope/Helsinki — UTC+2 now; UTC+2 standard time, UTC+3 during daylight saving time
ARNEurope/Stockholm — UTC+1 now; UTC+1 standard time, UTC+2 during daylight saving time
DifferenceStockholm is 1 hour behind Helsinki today.

Jet lag, flying HEL → ARN. 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

HEL Helsinki Vantaa AirportHelsinki, Finland · longest runway 11,483 ft3,500 m ARN Stockholm-Arlanda AirportStockholm, Sweden · longest runway 10,830 ft3,301 m

More routes from HEL and ARN

LHRHEL London – Helsinki 1,848 km1,148 mi · 3 h HELHND Helsinki – Tokyo 7,825 km4,862 mi · 9 h 35 min HELSIN Helsinki – Singapore 9,275 km5,763 mi · 11 h 05 min OSLARN Oslo – Stockholm 385 km239 mi · 1 h 30 min CPHARN Copenhagen – Stockholm 547 km340 mi · 1 h 40 min LHRARN London – Stockholm 1,463 km909 mi · 2 h 40 min

Routes of a similar length

CDGAMS Paris – Amsterdam 399 km248 mi · 1 h 30 min HNDITM Tokyo – Osaka 404 km251 mi · 1 h 35 min PHXLAS Phoenix – Las Vegas 411 km256 mi · 1 h 35 min ISTESB Istanbul – Ankara 381 km237 mi · 1 h 25 min

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).