✈ SEA → PEK
11H 5M FLIGHT. YOU WILL CRY DURING A ROMCOM. IT'S FINE.
Flight from Seattle to Beijing
From Sea-Tac (SEA), USA North America → Beijing Capital (PEK), China Asia
↔ Flying the other way? Beijing → Seattle
How long is the flight from Seattle to Beijing?
A nonstop flight from Seattle (SEA) to Beijing (PEK) takes about 11 hours 5 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,393 miles (8,679 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
11h 5m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,393 mi
8,679 km · great-circle
Avg speed
783 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Seattle timezone
UTC-7
America/Los_Angeles
Beijing timezone
UTC+8
Asia/Shanghai
Time difference
+15h
15 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~15d
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 Seattle
Nearest destinations
- Seattle → Vancouver
- Seattle → San Francisco
- Seattle → Las Vegas
- Seattle → Los Angeles
- Seattle → Dallas
- Seattle → Chicago
- Seattle → Toronto
- Seattle → Atlanta
- Seattle → Mexico City
- Seattle → New York
Long-haul from Seattle
- Seattle → Johannesburg
- Seattle → Cape Town
- Seattle → Nairobi
- Seattle → Melbourne
- Seattle → Bali (Denpasar)
- Seattle → Kuala Lumpur
- Seattle → Singapore
- Seattle → Sydney
- Seattle → Mumbai
- Seattle → Abu Dhabi
More flights to Asia
Flights to Beijing
Nearest origins
- Seoul → Beijing
- Shanghai → Beijing
- Taipei → Beijing
- Osaka → Beijing
- Hong Kong → Beijing
- Tokyo → Beijing
- Manila → Beijing
- Bangkok → Beijing
- Delhi → Beijing
- Kuala Lumpur → Beijing
Long-haul to Beijing
- Buenos Aires → Beijing
- Santiago → Beijing
- São Paulo → Beijing
- Rio de Janeiro → Beijing
- Cape Town → Beijing
- Cancun → Beijing
- Miami → Beijing
- Mexico City → Beijing
- Johannesburg → Beijing
- Atlanta → Beijing