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HKG Hong Kong ⇄ NRT Tokyo

Hong Kong International Airport (Hong Kong) and Narita International Airport (Japan): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance2,962 km1,841 mi1,600 nautical miles
HKG → NRT4 h 10 minestimated block time
NRT → HKG4 h 40 minestimated block time
Clock change+1 hTokyo vs Hong Kong, today
Great-circle route from Hong Kong (HKG) to Tokyo (NRT)HKGHong KongNRTTokyo
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

HKG → NRT

4 h 10 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 54° (NE).

Leave Hong Kong Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Tokyo Sat 7 Nov, 15:10 local.

NRT → HKG

4 h 40 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 247° (WSW).

Leave Tokyo Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Hong Kong Sat 7 Nov, 13:40 local.

HKG-bound flights are the slower direction by about 30 minutes in our estimate: the route runs mostly 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 distance2,962 km · 1,841 mi · 1,600 nmi
Initial heading54° (NE) from HKG; 247° (WSW) from NRT
Farthest from the equator35.8°N
Crossesneither the equator nor the 180th meridian
Share of the longest possible trip15% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

HKGAsia/Hong_Kong — UTC+8 now; UTC+8 all year (no daylight saving time)
NRTAsia/Tokyo — UTC+9 now; UTC+9 all year (no daylight saving time)
DifferenceTokyo is 1 hour ahead of Hong Kong today.

Jet lag, flying HKG → NRT. Your body clock has to move 1 hour earlier, like an eastward 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

HKG Hong Kong International AirportHong Kong, Hong Kong · longest runway 12,467 ft3,800 m NRT Narita International AirportTokyo, Japan · longest runway 13,123 ft4,000 m

More routes from HKG and NRT

HKGTPE Hong Kong – Taipei 806 km501 mi · 1 h 55 min HKGBKK Hong Kong – Bangkok 1,690 km1,050 mi · 3 h HKGSIN Hong Kong – Singapore 2,566 km1,594 mi · 4 h CDGHKG Paris – Hong Kong 9,590 km5,959 mi · 11 h 10 min SFOHKG San Francisco – Hong Kong 11,128 km6,915 mi · 14 h 50 min JFKHKG New York – Hong Kong 12,970 km8,059 mi · 15 h 55 min ICNNRT Seoul – Tokyo 1,257 km781 mi · 2 h 20 min PVGNRT Shanghai – Tokyo 1,796 km1,116 mi · 2 h 55 min HNLNRT Honolulu – Tokyo 6,136 km3,813 mi · 8 h 40 min YVRNRT Vancouver – Tokyo 7,503 km4,662 mi · 10 h 20 min LAXNRT Los Angeles – Tokyo 8,753 km5,439 mi · 12 h 05 min JFKNRT New York – Tokyo 10,830 km6,729 mi · 13 h 50 min

Routes of a similar length

SFOORD San Francisco – Chicago 2,964 km1,842 mi · 4 h 05 min YULCUN Montreal – Cancún 2,969 km1,845 mi · 4 h 35 min YYZPUJ Toronto – Punta Cana 2,984 km1,854 mi · 4 h 20 min LGWTFS London – Tenerife 2,913 km1,810 mi · 4 h 30 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).