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SIN Singapore ⇄ HND Tokyo

Singapore Changi Airport (Singapore) and Tokyo Haneda International Airport (Japan): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance5,300 km3,293 mi2,862 nautical miles
SIN → HND6 h 50 minestimated block time
HND → SIN7 h 20 minestimated block time
Clock change+1 hTokyo vs Singapore, today
Great-circle route from Singapore (SIN) to Tokyo (HND)SINSingaporeHNDTokyo
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

SIN → HND

6 h 50 min

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

Leave Singapore Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Tokyo Sat 7 Nov, 17:50 local.

HND → SIN

7 h 20 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 232° (SW).

Leave Tokyo Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Singapore Sat 7 Nov, 16:20 local.

SIN-bound flights are the slower direction by about 25 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 distance5,300 km · 3,293 mi · 2,862 nmi
Initial heading40° (NE) from SIN; 232° (SW) from HND
Farthest from the equator35.5°N
Crossesneither the equator nor the 180th meridian
Share of the longest possible trip26% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

SINAsia/Singapore — UTC+8 now; UTC+8 all year (no daylight saving time)
HNDAsia/Tokyo — UTC+9 now; UTC+9 all year (no daylight saving time)
DifferenceTokyo is 1 hour ahead of Singapore today.

Jet lag, flying SIN → HND. 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

SIN Singapore Changi AirportSingapore, Singapore · longest runway 13,123 ft4,000 m HND Tokyo Haneda International AirportTokyo, Japan · longest runway 11,024 ft3,360 m

More routes from SIN and HND

SINKUL Singapore – Kuala Lumpur 297 km185 mi · 1 h 25 min SINDPS Singapore – Bali (Denpasar) 1,672 km1,039 mi · 2 h 55 min SINBOM Singapore – Mumbai 3,922 km2,437 mi · 5 h 35 min ISTSIN Istanbul – Singapore 8,681 km5,394 mi · 10 h 25 min LHRSIN London – Singapore 10,883 km6,762 mi · 12 h 40 min SINJFK Singapore – New York 15,341 km9,532 mi · 18 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 YVRHND Vancouver – Tokyo 7,558 km4,697 mi · 10 h 25 min SFOHND San Francisco – Tokyo 8,286 km5,148 mi · 11 h 30 min LHRHND London – Tokyo 9,592 km5,960 mi · 11 h 35 min JFKHND New York – Tokyo 10,875 km6,758 mi · 13 h 55 min

Routes of a similar length

DOHBKK Doha – Bangkok 5,280 km3,281 mi · 6 h 45 min YYZDUB Toronto – Dublin 5,261 km3,269 mi · 6 h 35 min DOHLHR Doha – London 5,241 km3,257 mi · 7 h 30 min BOSLHR Boston – London 5,240 km3,256 mi · 6 h 30 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).