✈ LAX → EDI
10H 37M FLIGHT. YOU WILL CRY DURING A ROMCOM. IT'S FINE.
Flight from Los Angeles to Edinburgh
From LAX (LAX), USA North America → Edinburgh Airport (EDI), United Kingdom Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Edinburgh → Los Angeles
How long is the flight from Los Angeles to Edinburgh?
A nonstop flight from Los Angeles (LAX) to Edinburgh (EDI) takes about 10 hours 37 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,152 miles (8,292 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
10h 37m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,152 mi
8,292 km · great-circle
Avg speed
781 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Los Angeles timezone
UTC-7
America/Los_Angeles
Edinburgh timezone
UTC+1
Europe/London
Time difference
+8h
8 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~8d
Eastward — worse
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 Los Angeles
Nearest destinations
- Los Angeles → Las Vegas
- Los Angeles → San Francisco
- Los Angeles → Seattle
- Los Angeles → Vancouver
- Los Angeles → Dallas
- Los Angeles → Mexico City
- Los Angeles → Chicago
- Los Angeles → Atlanta
- Los Angeles → Cancun
- Los Angeles → Toronto
Long-haul from Los Angeles
- Los Angeles → Johannesburg
- Los Angeles → Cape Town
- Los Angeles → Nairobi
- Los Angeles → Kuala Lumpur
- Los Angeles → Singapore
- Los Angeles → Mumbai
- Los Angeles → Bali (Denpasar)
- Los Angeles → Abu Dhabi
- Los Angeles → Dubai
- Los Angeles → Doha
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