✈ MAN → LAX
MANCHESTER → LOS ANGELES IN 10H 54M. CONSIDER BUSINESS CLASS. NO, REALLY.
Flight from Manchester to Los Angeles
From Manchester Airport (MAN), United Kingdom Europe → LAX (LAX), USA North America
↔ Flying the other way? Los Angeles → Manchester
How long is the flight from Manchester to Los Angeles?
A nonstop flight from Manchester (MAN) to Los Angeles (LAX) takes about 10 hours 54 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,300 miles (8,530 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
10h 54m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,300 mi
8,530 km · great-circle
Avg speed
782 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Manchester timezone
UTC+1
Europe/London
Los Angeles timezone
UTC-7
America/Los_Angeles
Time difference
-8h
8 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~5.6d
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 Manchester
Nearest destinations
- Manchester → London
- Manchester → Dublin
- Manchester → Edinburgh
- Manchester → Amsterdam
- Manchester → Brussels
- Manchester → Paris
- Manchester → Frankfurt
- Manchester → Copenhagen
- Manchester → Zurich
- Manchester → Berlin
Long-haul from Manchester
- Manchester → Auckland
- Manchester → Sydney
- Manchester → Melbourne
- Manchester → Bali (Denpasar)
- Manchester → Santiago
- Manchester → Buenos Aires
- Manchester → Singapore
- Manchester → Manila
- Manchester → Kuala Lumpur
- Manchester → Cape Town
More flights to North America
Flights to Los Angeles
Nearest origins
- 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 → Los Angeles
Long-haul to 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 → Los Angeles