✈ CPH → GIG
12H 53M FLIGHT. YOU WILL CRY DURING A ROMCOM. IT'S FINE.
Flight from Copenhagen to Rio de Janeiro
From Kastrup (CPH), Denmark Europe → Galeão (GIG), Brazil South America
↔ Flying the other way? Rio de Janeiro → Copenhagen
How long is the flight from Copenhagen to Rio de Janeiro?
A nonstop flight from Copenhagen (CPH) to Rio de Janeiro (GIG) takes about 12 hours 53 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 6,330 miles (10,187 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
12h 53m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
6,330 mi
10,187 km · great-circle
Avg speed
791 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Copenhagen timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Copenhagen
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 Copenhagen
Nearest destinations
- Copenhagen → Berlin
- Copenhagen → Oslo
- Copenhagen → Stockholm
- Copenhagen → Prague
- Copenhagen → Amsterdam
- Copenhagen → Warsaw
- Copenhagen → Frankfurt
- Copenhagen → Brussels
- Copenhagen → Munich
- Copenhagen → Vienna
Long-haul from Copenhagen
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