✈ GIG → FCO
11H 40M FLIGHT. YOU WILL CRY DURING A ROMCOM. IT'S FINE.
Flight from Rio de Janeiro to Rome
From Galeão (GIG), Brazil South America → Fiumicino (FCO), Italy Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Rome → Rio de Janeiro
How long is the flight from Rio de Janeiro to Rome?
A nonstop flight from Rio de Janeiro (GIG) to Rome (FCO) takes about 11 hours 40 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,698 miles (9,170 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
11h 40m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,698 mi
9,170 km · great-circle
Avg speed
786 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Rio de Janeiro timezone
UTC-3
America/Sao_Paulo
Rome timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Rome
Time difference
+5h
5 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~5d
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 Rio de Janeiro
Nearest destinations
- Rio de Janeiro → 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
Long-haul from Rio de Janeiro
- 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)
More flights to Europe
Flights to Rome
Nearest origins
- Milan → Rome
- Zurich → Rome
- Munich → Rome
- Vienna → Rome
- Budapest → Rome
- Barcelona → Rome
- Prague → Rome
- Frankfurt → Rome
- Athens → Rome
- Paris → Rome
Long-haul to Rome
- Auckland → Rome
- Sydney → Rome
- Melbourne → Rome
- Santiago → Rome
- Bali (Denpasar) → Rome
- Buenos Aires → Rome
- Manila → Rome
- Mexico City → Rome
- Los Angeles → Rome
- San Francisco → Rome