✈ AMS → GIG
12H 8M FLIGHT. YOU WILL CRY DURING A ROMCOM. IT'S FINE.
Flight from Amsterdam to Rio de Janeiro
From Schiphol (AMS), Netherlands Europe → Galeão (GIG), Brazil South America
↔ Flying the other way? Rio de Janeiro → Amsterdam
How long is the flight from Amsterdam to Rio de Janeiro?
A nonstop flight from Amsterdam (AMS) to Rio de Janeiro (GIG) takes about 12 hours 8 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,940 miles (9,560 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
12h 8m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,940 mi
9,560 km · great-circle
Avg speed
788 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Amsterdam timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Amsterdam
Rio de Janeiro timezone
UTC-3
America/Sao_Paulo
Time difference
-5h
5 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~3.5d
Westward — easier
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 Amsterdam
Nearest destinations
- Amsterdam → Brussels
- Amsterdam → Frankfurt
- Amsterdam → London
- Amsterdam → Paris
- Amsterdam → Manchester
- Amsterdam → Berlin
- Amsterdam → Zurich
- Amsterdam → Copenhagen
- Amsterdam → Munich
- Amsterdam → Edinburgh
Long-haul from Amsterdam
Flights to Rio de Janeiro
Nearest origins
- São Paulo → Rio de Janeiro
- Buenos Aires → Rio de Janeiro
- Santiago → Rio de Janeiro
- Cape Town → Rio de Janeiro
- Miami → Rio de Janeiro
- Cancun → Rio de Janeiro
- Johannesburg → Rio de Janeiro
- Casablanca → Rio de Janeiro
- Atlanta → Rio de Janeiro
- Mexico City → Rio de Janeiro
Long-haul to Rio de Janeiro
- Osaka → Rio de Janeiro
- Tokyo → Rio de Janeiro
- Taipei → Rio de Janeiro
- Shanghai → Rio de Janeiro
- Manila → Rio de Janeiro
- Seoul → Rio de Janeiro
- Hong Kong → Rio de Janeiro
- Beijing → Rio de Janeiro
- Bangkok → Rio de Janeiro
- Bali (Denpasar) → Rio de Janeiro