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MEX Mexico City ⇄ CUN Cancún

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

Distance1,285 km798 mi694 nautical miles
MEX → CUN2 h 25 minestimated block time
CUN → MEX2 h 35 minestimated block time
Clock change+1 hCancún vs Mexico City, today
Great-circle route from Mexico City (MEX) to Cancún (CUN)MEXMexico CityCUNCancún
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 → CUN

2 h 25 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 80° (E).

Leave Mexico City Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Cancún Sat 7 Nov, 13:25 local.

CUN → MEX

2 h 35 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 264° (W).

Leave Cancún Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Mexico City Sat 7 Nov, 11:35 local.

The two directions differ by 9 minutes in our estimate: this route is short, so the wind has little effect on the total. How we estimate it.

Distance

Great-circle distance1,285 km · 798 mi · 694 nmi
Initial heading80° (E) from MEX; 264° (W) from CUN
Farthest from the equator21.0°N
Crossesneither the equator nor the 180th meridian
Share of the longest possible trip6% 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)
CUNAmerica/Cancun — UTC−5 now; UTC−5 all year (no daylight saving time)
DifferenceCancún is 1 hour ahead of Mexico City today.

Jet lag, flying MEX → CUN. 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

MEX Mexico City Benito Juárez International AirportMexico City, Mexico · longest runway 12,966 ft3,952 m CUN Cancún International AirportCancún, Mexico · longest runway 11,483 ft3,500 m

More routes from MEX and CUN

MEXGDL Mexico City – Guadalajara 459 km285 mi · 1 h 35 min IAHMEX Houston – Mexico City 1,232 km765 mi · 2 h 30 min MEXTIJ Mexico City – Tijuana 2,301 km1,430 mi · 3 h 50 min BOGMEX Bogotá – Mexico City 3,159 km1,963 mi · 4 h 45 min JFKMEX New York – Mexico City 3,365 km2,091 mi · 5 h 05 min MEXCDG Mexico City – Paris 9,199 km5,716 mi · 10 h 45 min MIACUN Miami – Cancún 855 km531 mi · 2 h 05 min ATLCUN Atlanta – Cancún 1,421 km883 mi · 2 h 40 min JFKCUN New York – Cancún 2,506 km1,557 mi · 4 h YULCUN Montreal – Cancún 2,969 km1,845 mi · 4 h 35 min MADCUN Madrid – Cancún 7,960 km4,946 mi · 11 h FRACUN Frankfurt – Cancún 8,605 km5,347 mi · 11 h 40 min

Routes of a similar length

YVRSFO Vancouver – San Francisco 1,289 km801 mi · 2 h 30 min DFWORD Dallas–Fort Worth – Chicago 1,291 km802 mi · 2 h 25 min CPTDUR Cape Town – Durban 1,277 km794 mi · 2 h 25 min LHRVIE London – Vienna 1,275 km792 mi · 2 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).