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LAX Los Angeles ⇄ NAN Nadi (Fiji)

Los Angeles International Airport (United States) and Nadi International Airport (Fiji): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance8,893 km5,526 mi4,802 nautical miles
LAX → NAN11 h 30 minestimated block time
NAN → LAX10 h 50 minestimated block time
Clock change+19 hNadi (Fiji) vs Los Angeles, today
Great-circle route from Los Angeles (LAX) to Nadi (Fiji) (NAN)LAXLos AngelesNANNadi (Fiji)
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

LAX → NAN

11 h 30 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 241° (WSW).

Leave Los Angeles Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Nadi (Fiji) Sun 8 Nov, 17:30 local +1 day.

NAN → LAX

10 h 50 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 49° (NE).

Leave Nadi (Fiji) Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Los Angeles Sat 7 Nov, 00:50 local.

NAN-bound flights are the slower direction by about 35 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 distance8,893 km · 5,526 mi · 4,802 nmi
Initial heading241° (WSW) from LAX; 49° (NE) from NAN
Farthest from the equator33.9°N
Crossesthe equator and the 180th meridian (International Date Line area)
Share of the longest possible trip44% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

LAXAmerica/Los_Angeles — UTC−7 now; UTC−8 standard time, UTC−7 during daylight saving time
NANPacific/Fiji — UTC+12 now; UTC+12 all year (no daylight saving time)
DifferenceNadi (Fiji) is 19 hours ahead of Los Angeles today; +20 h in January and +19 h in July because daylight saving time starts and ends on different dates (or not at all).

Jet lag, flying LAX → NAN. The clock change is 19 hours, but to your body that is a shift of 5 hours the other way. Your body clock has to move 5 hours later, like a westward trip. A common rule of thumb is that the body clock adjusts by roughly one time zone a day, so expect up to about 5 days to fully adjust. Shifting later (as here) is usually the easier direction; evening daylight at the destination helps. Flying the other way, the shift is reversed.

General information, not medical advice.

The two airports

LAX Los Angeles International AirportLos Angeles, United States · longest runway 12,894 ft3,930 m NAN Nadi International AirportNadi (Fiji), Fiji · longest runway 10,739 ft3,273 m

More routes from LAX and NAN

LAXLAS Los Angeles – Las Vegas 380 km236 mi · 1 h 25 min LAXSEA Los Angeles – Seattle 1,537 km955 mi · 2 h 50 min EWRLAX Newark – Los Angeles 3,941 km2,449 mi · 6 h 05 min LAXAMS Los Angeles – Amsterdam 8,956 km5,565 mi · 10 h 45 min LAXTPE Los Angeles – Taipei 10,922 km6,787 mi · 14 h 40 min LAXSIN Los Angeles – Singapore 14,102 km8,762 mi · 18 h 25 min AKLNAN Auckland – Nadi (Fiji) 2,156 km1,340 mi · 3 h 30 min SYDNAN Sydney – Nadi (Fiji) 3,169 km1,969 mi · 4 h 25 min

Routes of a similar length

LHRICN London – Seoul 8,861 km5,506 mi · 10 h 40 min FRAPVG Frankfurt – Shanghai 8,859 km5,505 mi · 10 h 30 min CDGICN Paris – Seoul 8,927 km5,547 mi · 10 h 40 min ISTHND Istanbul – Tokyo 8,959 km5,567 mi · 10 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).