✈ LAX → FRA
11H 51M IN A METAL TUBE. 5,792 MILES. EARN THE LEG.
Flight from Los Angeles to Frankfurt
From LAX (LAX), USA North America → Frankfurt Airport (FRA), Germany Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Frankfurt → Los Angeles
How long is the flight from Los Angeles to Frankfurt?
A nonstop flight from Los Angeles (LAX) to Frankfurt (FRA) takes about 11 hours 51 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,792 miles (9,321 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
11h 51m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,792 mi
9,321 km · great-circle
Avg speed
787 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Los Angeles timezone
UTC-7
America/Los_Angeles
Frankfurt timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Berlin
Time difference
+9h
9 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~9d
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 Frankfurt
Nearest origins
- Zurich → Frankfurt
- Munich → Frankfurt
- Brussels → Frankfurt
- Amsterdam → Frankfurt
- Prague → Frankfurt
- Berlin → Frankfurt
- Paris → Frankfurt
- Milan → Frankfurt
- Vienna → Frankfurt
- London → Frankfurt
Long-haul to Frankfurt
- Auckland → Frankfurt
- Sydney → Frankfurt
- Melbourne → Frankfurt
- Santiago → Frankfurt
- Bali (Denpasar) → Frankfurt
- Buenos Aires → Frankfurt
- Manila → Frankfurt
- Singapore → Frankfurt
- Kuala Lumpur → Frankfurt
- São Paulo → Frankfurt