✈ DEL → GIG
17H 29M FROM DELHI TO RIO DE JANEIRO. THIS IS NOT TRAVEL. THIS IS ENDURANCE.
Flight from Delhi to Rio de Janeiro
From Indira Gandhi (DEL), India Asia → Galeão (GIG), Brazil South America
↔ Flying the other way? Rio de Janeiro → Delhi
How long is the flight from Delhi to Rio de Janeiro?
A nonstop flight from Delhi (DEL) to Rio de Janeiro (GIG) takes about 17 hours 29 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 8,738 miles (14,062 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
17h 29m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
8,738 mi
14,062 km · great-circle
Avg speed
804 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Delhi timezone
UTC+5:30
Asia/Kolkata
Rio de Janeiro timezone
UTC-3
America/Sao_Paulo
Time difference
-8.5h
8h 30m behind
Jet lag (rough)
~5.9d
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
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