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IAH Houston ⇄ BOG Bogotá

George Bush Intercontinental Airport (United States) and El Dorado International Airport (Colombia): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance3,585 km2,228 mi1,936 nautical miles
IAH → BOG5 hestimated block time
BOG → IAH5 h 15 minestimated block time
Clock change±0 hBogotá vs Houston, today
Great-circle route from Houston (IAH) to Bogotá (BOG)IAHHoustonBOGBogotá
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

IAH → BOG

5 h

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 138° (SE).

Leave Houston Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Bogotá Sat 7 Nov, 16:00 local.

BOG → IAH

5 h 15 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 324° (NW).

Leave Bogotá Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Houston Sat 7 Nov, 14:15 local.

The two directions differ by 13 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 distance3,585 km · 2,228 mi · 1,936 nmi
Initial heading138° (SE) from IAH; 324° (NW) from BOG
Farthest from the equator30.0°N
Crossesneither the equator nor the 180th meridian
Share of the longest possible trip18% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

IAHAmerica/Chicago — UTC−5 now; UTC−6 standard time, UTC−5 during daylight saving time
BOGAmerica/Bogota — UTC−5 now; UTC−5 all year (no daylight saving time)
DifferenceBogotá is on the same clock as Houston today; +1 h in January and ±0 h in July because daylight saving time starts and ends on different dates (or not at all).

Jet lag, flying IAH → BOG. No time-zone change, so no jet lag from the clock — only the usual tiredness of travel.

General information, not medical advice.

The two airports

IAH George Bush Intercontinental AirportHouston, United States · longest runway 12,001 ft3,658 m BOG El Dorado International AirportBogotá, Colombia · longest runway 12,467 ft3,800 m

More routes from IAH and BOG

DFWIAH Dallas–Fort Worth – Houston 362 km225 mi · 1 h 25 min IAHMEX Houston – Mexico City 1,232 km765 mi · 2 h 30 min IAHCUN Houston – Cancún 1,307 km812 mi · 2 h 30 min IAHLHR Houston – London 7,763 km4,824 mi · 9 h 15 min IAHFRA Houston – Frankfurt 8,402 km5,221 mi · 9 h 55 min IAHSYD Houston – Sydney 13,836 km8,597 mi · 17 h 25 min PTYBOG Panama City – Bogotá 755 km469 mi · 1 h 55 min BOGLIM Bogotá – Lima 1,888 km1,173 mi · 3 h 10 min MIABOG Miami – Bogotá 2,435 km1,513 mi · 3 h 50 min BOGMEX Bogotá – Mexico City 3,159 km1,963 mi · 4 h 45 min BOGMAD Bogotá – Madrid 8,031 km4,990 mi · 9 h 40 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).