✈ EDI → GIG
12H 6M FLIGHT. YOU WILL CRY DURING A ROMCOM. IT'S FINE.
Flight from Edinburgh to Rio de Janeiro
From Edinburgh Airport (EDI), United Kingdom Europe → Galeão (GIG), Brazil South America
↔ Flying the other way? Rio de Janeiro → Edinburgh
How long is the flight from Edinburgh to Rio de Janeiro?
A nonstop flight from Edinburgh (EDI) to Rio de Janeiro (GIG) takes about 12 hours 6 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,922 miles (9,530 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
12h 6m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,922 mi
9,530 km · great-circle
Avg speed
788 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Edinburgh timezone
UTC+1
Europe/London
Rio de Janeiro timezone
UTC-3
America/Sao_Paulo
Time difference
-4h
4 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~2.8d
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 Edinburgh
Nearest destinations
- Edinburgh → Manchester
- Edinburgh → Dublin
- Edinburgh → London
- Edinburgh → Amsterdam
- Edinburgh → Brussels
- Edinburgh → Paris
- Edinburgh → Oslo
- Edinburgh → Copenhagen
- Edinburgh → Frankfurt
- Edinburgh → Berlin
Long-haul from Edinburgh
- Edinburgh → Auckland
- Edinburgh → Melbourne
- Edinburgh → Sydney
- Edinburgh → Bali (Denpasar)
- Edinburgh → Santiago
- Edinburgh → Buenos Aires
- Edinburgh → Singapore
- Edinburgh → Kuala Lumpur
- Edinburgh → Manila
- Edinburgh → Cape Town
More flights to South America
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