How Long Is the Flight to the Philippines?

Quick answer: the flight to the Philippines (Manila) is about 17 h 30 min in the air from New York and 15 h 34 min from Los Angeles, non-stop; a connection adds its layover. Of the busiest US airports, Seattle is the closest at 14 h 16 min and Miami the farthest at 19 h 16 min. Flying home from Los Angeles is 1 h 14 min shorter.

Pick two airports. See the distance, about how long a non-stop flight takes, and what time it will be when you land.

JFK → LHR · non-stop

7 h 11 minAbout 7 h 11 min gate to gate for 3,442 miles (5,540 km). Most scheduled flights of this length: 6 h 56 min to 7 h 26 min.

Distance: 3,442 mi
Lands: pick a date and time

The flight back, westbound into the jet stream, is slower: about 7 h 48 min.
An estimate from the scheduled times of 5,797 US routes (US DOT, 2026-06): half of them are within 7 minutes of it. Your airline’s schedule is the real answer.

Airports from OurAirports, time zones from mwgg/Airports, flight times fitted on US DOT schedules. An estimate for a non-stop: check your airline.

The calculator above opens on New York to Manila: change either airport to yours, or add a date and a departure time for the local time you land. Below, the flight from each of the busiest US airports.

How long is the flight to the Philippines from each US airport?

The FAA’s busiest US airports by passengers in 2024, the quickest first. Times are the estimated gate-to-gate time of a non-stop; the clock change is the Philippines’s time minus the airport’s, in January and in July.

From	Distance	To Manila	Flight back	Clock change (Jan / Jul)
Seattle (SEA)	6,652 mi	14 h 16 min	13 h 14 min	+16 h / +15 h
San Francisco (SFO)	6,977 mi	14 h 56 min	13 h 45 min	+16 h / +15 h
Los Angeles (LAX)	7,295 mi	15 h 34 min	14 h 20 min	+16 h / +15 h
Las Vegas (LAS)	7,375 mi	15 h 42 min	14 h 30 min	+16 h / +15 h
Phoenix (PHX)	7,625 mi	16 h 12 min	14 h 58 min	+15 h / +15 h
Denver (DEN)	7,670 mi	16 h 13 min	15 h 9 min	+15 h / +14 h
Minneapolis (MSP)	7,806 mi	16 h 22 min	15 h 32 min	+14 h / +13 h
Chicago O’Hare (ORD)	8,121 mi	16 h 56 min	16 h 9 min	+14 h / +13 h
Detroit (DTW)	8,222 mi	17 h 5 min	16 h 23 min	+13 h / +12 h
Boston (BOS)	8,434 mi	17 h 18 min	16 h 56 min	+13 h / +12 h
Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW)	8,309 mi	17 h 27 min	16 h 20 min	+14 h / +13 h
New York JFK (JFK)	8,510 mi	17 h 30 min	17 h 2 min	+13 h / +12 h
Newark (EWR)	8,501 mi	17 h 30 min	17 h 1 min	+13 h / +12 h
Houston (IAH)	8,524 mi	17 h 53 min	16 h 43 min	+14 h / +13 h
Charlotte (CLT)	8,712 mi	18 h 2 min	17 h 17 min	+13 h / +12 h
Atlanta (ATL)	8,712 mi	18 h 6 min	17 h 13 min	+13 h / +12 h
Orlando (MCO)	9,116 mi	18 h 53 min	17 h 59 min	+13 h / +12 h
Fort Lauderdale (FLL)	9,292 mi	19 h 14 min	18 h 18 min	+13 h / +12 h
Miami (MIA)	9,305 mi	19 h 16 min	18 h 19 min	+13 h / +12 h

Every route are longer than any US route the estimate was measured on (4,983 miles), so treat those as a rough guide: the longer the flight, the more the wind moves it. LaGuardia, the 19th busiest, is left out: its flights are short-haul, and New York’s long flights leave from JFK and Newark.

Why the flight home is shorter

From Los Angeles the flight to Manila is about 15 h 34 min and the flight back 14 h 20 min. The difference is the jet stream, the band of west-to-east wind at cruising height: flying east you ride it, flying west you fly into it. The estimate carries that as a single measured effect of how far east a route goes, which is why the two directions of the same route differ.

What the clock says when you land

The Philippines is 13 hours ahead of New York in January and 12 hours ahead of New York in July, when US clocks are on summer time; 16 hours ahead of Los Angeles in January and 15 hours ahead of Los Angeles in July. Leave Los Angeles at noon on Wednesday, July 15, and a non-stop would land in Manila at about 6:34 p.m. the next day, Thursday, local time.

Flying into another airport

This page measures to Manila (MNL). To Cebu (CEB) it is about 18 h 1 min from New York and 15 h 40 min from Los Angeles.

Is there a non-stop?

Not from every airport in the table: the times are what a non-stop would take, and a connection adds its layover. Your airline’s schedule says which airports fly to the Philippines non-stop. For any pair of airports, the calculator above gives the distance and the time.

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FAQ

How long is the flight to the Philippines?

About 17 h 30 min non-stop from New York and 15 h 34 min from Los Angeles. Of the busiest US airports, Seattle is the closest at 14 h 16 min and Miami the farthest at 19 h 16 min. All are estimates of a non-stop; a connection adds its layover.

How long is the flight to the Philippines from New York?

About 17 h 30 min from JFK and 17 h 30 min from Newark, for 8,510 miles to Manila. The flight back to New York is 28 min shorter: about 17 h 2 min.

How long is the flight to the Philippines from Los Angeles?

About 15 h 34 min from LAX, and 14 h 56 min from San Francisco, for 7,295 miles. The flight back is 1 h 14 min shorter: about 14 h 20 min.

What is the time difference between the Philippines and the US?

How these times are made

Distances are great circles between the airports (OurAirports). Times come from one line fitted to the median scheduled gate-to-gate time of 5,797 US routes (US DOT, 2026-06): a fixed allowance, a time per mile, and a correction for how far east the route goes. Half of those routes are within 7 minutes of it. The busiest airports are the FAA’s 2024 passenger boardings. Your airline’s schedule is the real answer: winds, routings and the season move it by a few minutes on a short flight and by more on a long one.