✈ HEL → GIG
13H 56M, 6,884 MI. THE AIRLINE OWES YOU SOMETHING. THEY WON'T GIVE IT.
Flight from Helsinki to Rio de Janeiro
From Vantaa (HEL), Finland Europe → Galeão (GIG), Brazil South America
↔ Flying the other way? Rio de Janeiro → Helsinki
How long is the flight from Helsinki to Rio de Janeiro?
A nonstop flight from Helsinki (HEL) to Rio de Janeiro (GIG) takes about 13 hours 56 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 6,884 miles (11,079 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
13h 56m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
6,884 mi
11,079 km · great-circle
Avg speed
795 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Helsinki timezone
UTC+3
Europe/Helsinki
Rio de Janeiro timezone
UTC-3
America/Sao_Paulo
Time difference
-6h
6 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~4.2d
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 Helsinki
Nearest destinations
- Helsinki → Stockholm
- Helsinki → Oslo
- Helsinki → Copenhagen
- Helsinki → Warsaw
- Helsinki → Berlin
- Helsinki → Prague
- Helsinki → Vienna
- Helsinki → Budapest
- Helsinki → Amsterdam
- Helsinki → Frankfurt
Long-haul from Helsinki
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