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Route · Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America

MEX Mexico City ⇄ CDG Paris

Mexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (Mexico) and Charles de Gaulle International Airport (France): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance9,199 km5,716 mi4,967 nautical miles
MEX → CDG10 h 45 minestimated block time
CDG → MEX12 h 25 minestimated block time
Clock change+7 hParis vs Mexico City, today
Great-circle route from Mexico City (MEX) to Paris (CDG)MEXMexico CityCDGParis
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

MEX → CDG

10 h 45 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 40° (NE).

Leave Mexico City Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Paris Sun 8 Nov, 03:45 local +1 day.

CDG → MEX

12 h 25 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 291° (WNW).

Leave Paris Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Mexico City Sat 7 Nov, 15:25 local.

MEX-bound flights are the slower direction by about 100 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 distance9,199 km · 5,716 mi · 4,967 nmi
Initial heading40° (NE) from MEX; 291° (WNW) from CDG
Farthest from the equator52.4°N — the path arcs north of both airports
Crossesneither the equator nor the 180th meridian
Share of the longest possible trip46% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

MEXAmerica/Mexico_City — UTC−6 now; UTC−6 all year (no daylight saving time)
CDGEurope/Paris — UTC+1 now; UTC+1 standard time, UTC+2 during daylight saving time
DifferenceParis is 7 hours ahead of Mexico City today; +7 h in January and +8 h in July because daylight saving time starts and ends on different dates (or not at all).

Jet lag, flying MEX → CDG. Your body clock has to move 7 hours earlier, like an eastward trip. A common rule of thumb is that the body clock adjusts by roughly one time zone a day, so expect up to about 7 days to fully adjust. Shifting earlier (as here) is usually the harder direction; morning daylight at the destination helps. Flying the other way, the shift is reversed.

General information, not medical advice.

The two airports

MEX Mexico City Benito Juárez International AirportMexico City, Mexico · longest runway 12,966 ft3,952 m CDG Charles de Gaulle International AirportParis, France · longest runway 13,829 ft4,215 m

More routes from MEX and CDG

MEXGDL Mexico City – Guadalajara 459 km285 mi · 1 h 35 min IAHMEX Houston – Mexico City 1,232 km765 mi · 2 h 30 min MEXCUN Mexico City – Cancún 1,285 km798 mi · 2 h 25 min LAXMEX Los Angeles – Mexico City 2,500 km1,554 mi · 3 h 45 min BOGMEX Bogotá – Mexico City 3,159 km1,963 mi · 4 h 45 min MEXMAD Mexico City – Madrid 9,065 km5,633 mi · 10 h 30 min LHRCDG London – Paris 348 km216 mi · 1 h 25 min CDGLIS Paris – Lisbon 1,470 km913 mi · 2 h 50 min YULCDG Montreal – Paris 5,524 km3,433 mi · 6 h 50 min CDGDEL Paris – Delhi 6,565 km4,080 mi · 7 h 55 min LAXCDG Los Angeles – Paris 9,103 km5,656 mi · 10 h 50 min CDGSIN Paris – Singapore 10,724 km6,664 mi · 12 h 30 min

Routes of a similar length

LHRPVG London – Shanghai 9,241 km5,742 mi · 11 h SFOFRA San Francisco – Frankfurt 9,149 km5,685 mi · 11 h EWRTLV Newark – Tel Aviv 9,141 km5,680 mi · 10 h 35 min HELSIN Helsinki – Singapore 9,275 km5,763 mi · 11 h 05 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).