✈ AUH → ICN
8H 53M FLIGHT. TWO MOVIES, NO SLEEP, ONE EXISTENTIAL CRISIS.
Flight from Abu Dhabi to Seoul
From Abu Dhabi International (AUH), UAE Middle East → Incheon (ICN), South Korea Asia
↔ Flying the other way? Seoul → Abu Dhabi
How long is the flight from Abu Dhabi to Seoul?
A nonstop flight from Abu Dhabi (AUH) to Seoul (ICN) takes about 8 hours 53 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 4,248 miles (6,837 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
8h 53m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
4,248 mi
6,837 km · great-circle
Avg speed
769 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Abu Dhabi timezone
UTC+4
Asia/Dubai
Seoul timezone
UTC+9
Asia/Seoul
Time difference
+5h
5 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~5d
Eastward — worse
CO₂ footprint per passenger
Economy class, single passenger. Source: DEFRA 2024 averages.
This flight emits roughly 3.6× the CO₂ of an equivalent train trip and 0.9× a car driven alone over the same distance.
Flights from Abu Dhabi
Nearest destinations
- Abu Dhabi → Dubai
- Abu Dhabi → Doha
- Abu Dhabi → Mumbai
- Abu Dhabi → Tel Aviv
- Abu Dhabi → Delhi
- Abu Dhabi → Cairo
- Abu Dhabi → Istanbul
- Abu Dhabi → Athens
- Abu Dhabi → Bucharest
- Abu Dhabi → Nairobi
Long-haul from Abu Dhabi
- Abu Dhabi → Santiago
- Abu Dhabi → Mexico City
- Abu Dhabi → Auckland
- Abu Dhabi → Buenos Aires
- Abu Dhabi → Los Angeles
- Abu Dhabi → Cancun
- Abu Dhabi → Las Vegas
- Abu Dhabi → San Francisco
- Abu Dhabi → Dallas
- Abu Dhabi → Miami
More flights to Asia
Flights to Seoul
Nearest origins
- Shanghai → Seoul
- Osaka → Seoul
- Beijing → Seoul
- Tokyo → Seoul
- Taipei → Seoul
- Hong Kong → Seoul
- Manila → Seoul
- Bangkok → Seoul
- Kuala Lumpur → Seoul
- Singapore → Seoul
Long-haul to Seoul
- Buenos Aires → Seoul
- Santiago → Seoul
- São Paulo → Seoul
- Rio de Janeiro → Seoul
- Cape Town → Seoul
- Cancun → Seoul
- Miami → Seoul
- Johannesburg → Seoul
- Mexico City → Seoul
- Atlanta → Seoul