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LHR London ⇄ FRA Frankfurt

London Heathrow Airport (United Kingdom) and Frankfurt Main Airport (Germany): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance654 km406 mi353 nautical miles
LHR → FRA1 h 45 minestimated block time
FRA → LHR1 h 50 minestimated block time
Clock change+1 hFrankfurt vs London, today
Great-circle route from London (LHR) to Frankfurt (FRA)LHRLondonFRAFrankfurt
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

LHR → FRA

1 h 45 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 101° (E).

Leave London Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Frankfurt Sat 7 Nov, 12:45 local.

FRA → LHR

1 h 50 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 288° (WNW).

Leave Frankfurt Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive London Sat 7 Nov, 10:50 local.

The two directions differ by 8 minutes in our estimate: this route is short, so the wind has little effect on the total. How we estimate it.

Distance

Great-circle distance654 km · 406 mi · 353 nmi
Initial heading101° (E) from LHR; 288° (WNW) from FRA
Farthest from the equator51.5°N
Crossesneither the equator nor the 180th meridian
Share of the longest possible trip3% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

LHREurope/London — UTC+0 now; UTC+0 standard time, UTC+1 during daylight saving time
FRAEurope/Berlin — UTC+1 now; UTC+1 standard time, UTC+2 during daylight saving time
DifferenceFrankfurt is 1 hour ahead of London today.

Jet lag, flying LHR → FRA. 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

LHR London Heathrow AirportLondon, United Kingdom · longest runway 12,799 ft3,901 m FRA Frankfurt Main AirportFrankfurt, Germany · longest runway 13,123 ft4,000 m

More routes from LHR and FRA

LHRMAN London – Manchester 243 km151 mi · 1 h 20 min LHRMAD London – Madrid 1,244 km773 mi · 2 h 30 min AMMLHR Amman – London 3,683 km2,288 mi · 5 h 35 min LHRDEL London – Delhi 6,731 km4,183 mi · 8 h 05 min LHRSEZ London – Mahé 8,176 km5,080 mi · 10 h LHRSYD London – Sydney 17,021 km10,576 mi · 19 h 30 min FRABER Frankfurt – Berlin 431 km268 mi · 1 h 30 min JFKFRA New York – Frankfurt 6,189 km3,846 mi · 7 h 35 min ATLFRA Atlanta – Frankfurt 7,409 km4,604 mi · 8 h 50 min IAHFRA Houston – Frankfurt 8,402 km5,221 mi · 9 h 55 min FRABKK Frankfurt – Bangkok 9,000 km5,593 mi · 10 h 35 min FRASIN Frankfurt – Singapore 10,280 km6,388 mi · 12 h 05 min

Routes of a similar length

ATLMCO Atlanta – Orlando 651 km404 mi · 1 h 45 min SFOLAS San Francisco – Las Vegas 665 km413 mi · 1 h 45 min EDIAMS Edinburgh – Amsterdam 666 km414 mi · 1 h 45 min BOSDCA Boston – Washington 641 km398 mi · 1 h 50 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).