✈ WAW → LAX
12H 15M FLIGHT. YOU WILL CRY DURING A ROMCOM. IT'S FINE.
Flight from Warsaw to Los Angeles
From Chopin (WAW), Poland Europe → LAX (LAX), USA North America
↔ Flying the other way? Los Angeles → Warsaw
How long is the flight from Warsaw to Los Angeles?
A nonstop flight from Warsaw (WAW) to Los Angeles (LAX) takes about 12 hours 15 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 6,002 miles (9,659 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
12h 15m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
6,002 mi
9,659 km · great-circle
Avg speed
789 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Warsaw timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Warsaw
Los Angeles timezone
UTC-7
America/Los_Angeles
Time difference
-9h
9 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~6.3d
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 Warsaw
Nearest destinations
- Warsaw → Berlin
- Warsaw → Prague
- Warsaw → Budapest
- Warsaw → Vienna
- Warsaw → Copenhagen
- Warsaw → Munich
- Warsaw → Stockholm
- Warsaw → Frankfurt
- Warsaw → Bucharest
- Warsaw → Helsinki
Long-haul from Warsaw
- Warsaw → Auckland
- Warsaw → Sydney
- Warsaw → Melbourne
- Warsaw → Santiago
- Warsaw → Buenos Aires
- Warsaw → Bali (Denpasar)
- Warsaw → São Paulo
- Warsaw → Rio de Janeiro
- Warsaw → Mexico City
- Warsaw → 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