✈ DEL → EDI
8H 53M FLIGHT. TWO MOVIES, NO SLEEP, ONE EXISTENTIAL CRISIS.
Flight from Delhi to Edinburgh
From Indira Gandhi (DEL), India Asia → Edinburgh Airport (EDI), United Kingdom Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Edinburgh → Delhi
How long is the flight from Delhi to Edinburgh?
A nonstop flight from Delhi (DEL) to Edinburgh (EDI) takes about 8 hours 53 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 4,248 miles (6,836 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
6,836 km · great-circle
Avg speed
769 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Delhi timezone
UTC+5:30
Asia/Kolkata
Edinburgh timezone
UTC+1
Europe/London
Time difference
-4.5h
4h 30m behind
Jet lag (rough)
~3.2d
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 Delhi
Nearest destinations
- Delhi → Mumbai
- Delhi → Dubai
- Delhi → Abu Dhabi
- Delhi → Doha
- Delhi → Bangkok
- Delhi → Hong Kong
- Delhi → Beijing
- Delhi → Kuala Lumpur
- Delhi → Tel Aviv
- Delhi → Singapore
Long-haul from Delhi
- Delhi → Santiago
- Delhi → Buenos Aires
- Delhi → Mexico City
- Delhi → São Paulo
- Delhi → Cancun
- Delhi → Rio de Janeiro
- Delhi → Miami
- Delhi → Dallas
- Delhi → Los Angeles
- Delhi → Atlanta
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