✈ AKL → GIG
15H 21M FLIGHT. YOU WILL FORGET WHAT GRASS LOOKS LIKE.
Flight from Auckland to Rio de Janeiro
From Auckland Airport (AKL), New Zealand Oceania → Galeão (GIG), Brazil South America
↔ Flying the other way? Rio de Janeiro → Auckland
How long is the flight from Auckland to Rio de Janeiro?
A nonstop flight from Auckland (AKL) to Rio de Janeiro (GIG) takes about 15 hours 21 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 7,619 miles (12,262 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
15h 21m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
7,619 mi
12,262 km · great-circle
Avg speed
799 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Auckland timezone
UTC+12
Pacific/Auckland
Rio de Janeiro timezone
UTC-3
America/Sao_Paulo
Time difference
-15h
15 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~10.5d
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 Auckland
Nearest destinations
- Auckland → Sydney
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- Auckland → Tokyo
- Auckland → Taipei
- Auckland → Osaka
- Auckland → Hong Kong
Long-haul from Auckland
- Auckland → Lisbon
- Auckland → Madrid
- Auckland → Casablanca
- Auckland → Barcelona
- Auckland → Paris
- Auckland → Milan
- Auckland → Rome
- Auckland → Zurich
- Auckland → London
- Auckland → Brussels
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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