✈ YVR → KUL
16H FLIGHT. YOU WILL FORGET WHAT GRASS LOOKS LIKE.
Flight from Vancouver to Kuala Lumpur
From YVR (YVR), Canada North America → KLIA (KUL), Malaysia Asia
↔ Flying the other way? Kuala Lumpur → Vancouver
How long is the flight from Vancouver to Kuala Lumpur?
A nonstop flight from Vancouver (YVR) to Kuala Lumpur (KUL) takes about 16 hours, covering a great-circle distance of 7,961 miles (12,812 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
16h
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
7,961 mi
12,812 km · great-circle
Avg speed
801 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Vancouver timezone
UTC-7
America/Vancouver
Kuala Lumpur timezone
UTC+8
Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
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 Vancouver
Nearest destinations
- Vancouver → Seattle
- Vancouver → San Francisco
- Vancouver → Las Vegas
- Vancouver → Los Angeles
- Vancouver → Dallas
- Vancouver → Chicago
- Vancouver → Toronto
- Vancouver → Atlanta
- Vancouver → New York
- Vancouver → Mexico City
Long-haul from Vancouver
- Vancouver → Cape Town
- Vancouver → Johannesburg
- Vancouver → Nairobi
- Vancouver → Melbourne
- Vancouver → Bali (Denpasar)
- Vancouver → Singapore
- Vancouver → Sydney
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- Vancouver → Abu Dhabi
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More flights to Asia
Flights to Kuala Lumpur
Nearest origins
- Singapore → Kuala Lumpur
- Bangkok → Kuala Lumpur
- Bali (Denpasar) → Kuala Lumpur
- Manila → Kuala Lumpur
- Hong Kong → Kuala Lumpur
- Taipei → Kuala Lumpur
- Mumbai → Kuala Lumpur
- Shanghai → Kuala Lumpur
- Delhi → Kuala Lumpur
- Beijing → Kuala Lumpur
Long-haul to Kuala Lumpur
- Cancun → Kuala Lumpur
- Miami → Kuala Lumpur
- Mexico City → Kuala Lumpur
- Santiago → Kuala Lumpur
- Atlanta → Kuala Lumpur
- Buenos Aires → Kuala Lumpur
- São Paulo → Kuala Lumpur
- Rio de Janeiro → Kuala Lumpur
- Dallas → Kuala Lumpur
- New York → Kuala Lumpur