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ORD Chicago ⇄ HND Tokyo

Chicago O'Hare International Airport (United States) and Tokyo Haneda International Airport (Japan): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance10,124 km6,291 mi5,466 nautical miles
ORD → HND13 h 15 minestimated block time
HND → ORD11 h 55 minestimated block time
Clock change+14 hTokyo vs Chicago, today
Great-circle route from Chicago (ORD) to Tokyo (HND)ORDChicagoHNDTokyo
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

ORD → HND

13 h 15 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 323° (NW).

Leave Chicago Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Tokyo Sun 8 Nov, 14:15 local +1 day.

HND → ORD

11 h 55 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 33° (NNE).

Leave Tokyo Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Chicago Sat 7 Nov, 06:55 local.

HND-bound flights are the slower direction by about 80 minutes in our estimate: the route runs partly 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 distance10,124 km · 6,291 mi · 5,466 nmi
Initial heading323° (NW) from ORD; 33° (NNE) from HND
Farthest from the equator63.4°N — the path arcs north of both airports
Crossesthe 180th meridian (International Date Line area)
Share of the longest possible trip51% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

ORDAmerica/Chicago — UTC−5 now; UTC−6 standard time, UTC−5 during daylight saving time
HNDAsia/Tokyo — UTC+9 now; UTC+9 all year (no daylight saving time)
DifferenceTokyo is 14 hours ahead of Chicago today; +15 h in January and +14 h in July because daylight saving time starts and ends on different dates (or not at all).

Jet lag, flying ORD → HND. The clock change is 14 hours, but to your body that is a shift of 10 hours the other way. Your body clock has to move 10 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 10 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

ORD Chicago O'Hare International AirportChicago, United States · longest runway 13,000 ft3,962 m HND Tokyo Haneda International AirportTokyo, Japan · longest runway 11,024 ft3,360 m

More routes from ORD and HND

ORDMSP Chicago – Minneapolis 537 km334 mi · 1 h 45 min JFKORD New York – Chicago 1,188 km738 mi · 2 h 35 min IAHORD Houston – Chicago 1,491 km926 mi · 2 h 40 min ORDLAS Chicago – Las Vegas 2,432 km1,511 mi · 4 h 10 min ORDDUB Chicago – Dublin 5,895 km3,663 mi · 7 h 15 min ORDICN Chicago – Seoul 10,519 km6,536 mi · 13 h 30 min HNDITM Tokyo – Osaka 404 km251 mi · 1 h 35 min HNDOKA Tokyo – Okinawa (Naha) 1,555 km966 mi · 2 h 55 min HNLHND Honolulu – Tokyo 6,191 km3,847 mi · 8 h 45 min MELHND Melbourne – Tokyo 8,158 km5,069 mi · 10 h 20 min FRAHND Frankfurt – Tokyo 9,363 km5,818 mi · 11 h 15 min JFKHND New York – Tokyo 10,875 km6,758 mi · 13 h 55 min

Routes of a similar length

EZEMAD Buenos Aires – Madrid 10,087 km6,267 mi · 12 h 10 min LAXPEK Los Angeles – Beijing 10,037 km6,237 mi · 13 h 20 min YVRHKG Vancouver – Hong Kong 10,269 km6,381 mi · 13 h 30 min FRASIN Frankfurt – Singapore 10,280 km6,388 mi · 12 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).