✈ ORD → EDI
7H 51M. CHICAGO TO EDINBURGH. YOUR BACK WILL FILE A COMPLAINT.
Flight from Chicago to Edinburgh
From O'Hare (ORD), USA North America → Edinburgh Airport (EDI), United Kingdom Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Edinburgh → Chicago
How long is the flight from Chicago to Edinburgh?
A nonstop flight from Chicago (ORD) to Edinburgh (EDI) takes about 7 hours 51 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 3,702 miles (5,957 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
7h 51m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
3,702 mi
5,957 km · great-circle
Avg speed
760 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Chicago timezone
UTC-5
America/Chicago
Edinburgh timezone
UTC+1
Europe/London
Time difference
+6h
6 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~6d
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 Chicago
Nearest destinations
- Chicago → Toronto
- Chicago → Atlanta
- Chicago → New York
- Chicago → Dallas
- Chicago → Boston
- Chicago → Miami
- Chicago → Cancun
- Chicago → Las Vegas
- Chicago → Mexico City
- Chicago → Seattle
Long-haul from Chicago
- Chicago → Bali (Denpasar)
- Chicago → Melbourne
- Chicago → Singapore
- Chicago → Kuala Lumpur
- Chicago → Sydney
- Chicago → Johannesburg
- Chicago → Bangkok
- Chicago → Cape Town
- Chicago → Auckland
- Chicago → Manila
More flights to Europe
Flights to Edinburgh
Nearest origins
- Manchester → Edinburgh
- Dublin → Edinburgh
- London → Edinburgh
- Amsterdam → Edinburgh
- Brussels → Edinburgh
- Paris → Edinburgh
- Oslo → Edinburgh
- Copenhagen → Edinburgh
- Frankfurt → Edinburgh
- Berlin → Edinburgh
Long-haul to Edinburgh
- Auckland → Edinburgh
- Melbourne → Edinburgh
- Sydney → Edinburgh
- Bali (Denpasar) → Edinburgh
- Santiago → Edinburgh
- Buenos Aires → Edinburgh
- Singapore → Edinburgh
- Kuala Lumpur → Edinburgh
- Manila → Edinburgh
- Cape Town → Edinburgh