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SGN Ho Chi Minh City ⇄ BKK Bangkok

Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Vietnam) and Suvarnabhumi Airport (Thailand): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance716 km445 mi387 nautical miles
SGN → BKK1 h 55 minestimated block time
BKK → SGN1 h 50 minestimated block time
Clock change±0 hBangkok vs Ho Chi Minh City, today
Great-circle route from Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) to Bangkok (BKK)SGNHo Chi Minh CityBKKBangkok
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

SGN → BKK

1 h 55 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 297° (WNW).

Leave Ho Chi Minh City Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Bangkok Sat 7 Nov, 11:55 local.

BKK → SGN

1 h 50 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 116° (ESE).

Leave Bangkok Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Ho Chi Minh City Sat 7 Nov, 11:50 local.

The two directions differ by 2 minutes in our estimate: this route is short, so the wind has little effect on the total. How we estimate it.

Distance

Great-circle distance716 km · 445 mi · 387 nmi
Initial heading297° (WNW) from SGN; 116° (ESE) from BKK
Farthest from the equator13.7°N
Crossesneither the equator nor the 180th meridian
Share of the longest possible trip4% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

SGNAsia/Ho_Chi_Minh — UTC+7 now; UTC+7 all year (no daylight saving time)
BKKAsia/Bangkok — UTC+7 now; UTC+7 all year (no daylight saving time)
DifferenceBangkok is on the same clock as Ho Chi Minh City today.

Jet lag, flying SGN → BKK. No time-zone change, so no jet lag from the clock — only the usual tiredness of travel.

General information, not medical advice.

The two airports

SGN Tan Son Nhat International AirportHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam · longest runway 12,468 ft3,800 m BKK Suvarnabhumi AirportBangkok, Thailand · longest runway 13,123 ft4,000 m

More routes from SGN and BKK

SINSGN Singapore – Ho Chi Minh City 1,093 km679 mi · 2 h 15 min SGNHAN Ho Chi Minh City – Hanoi 1,160 km721 mi · 2 h 20 min BKKCNX Bangkok – Chiang Mai 597 km371 mi · 1 h 45 min KULBKK Kuala Lumpur – Bangkok 1,221 km758 mi · 2 h 25 min HKGBKK Hong Kong – Bangkok 1,690 km1,050 mi · 3 h DOHBKK Doha – Bangkok 5,280 km3,281 mi · 6 h 45 min SYDBKK Sydney – Bangkok 7,515 km4,669 mi · 9 h 50 min LHRBKK London – Bangkok 9,578 km5,951 mi · 11 h 15 min

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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).