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Flying from New Delhi to Singapore?

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About this route

New DelhiSingapore

A long flight from India to Singapore. Singapore is 2½ hours ahead. Note the unusual time zone offset when adjusting your watch.

Route type International
Distance 4,159 km / 2,584 mi
Distance class Long-haul
Direction Southeastbound
Est. duration About 5h 5m
Time change Destination +2h 30m

This route crosses the Tropic of Cancer, the northernmost latitude where the sun passes directly overhead.

Departing from

DEL

Indira Gandhi International Airport

Location New Delhi, India
Time zone GMT+5:30 · UTC+5:30
Current time

The Mughal capital

Delhi is an enormous, ancient-and-modern capital built across the plains of northern India, layered with the remains of multiple historic capitals alongside the planned colonial-era core of New Delhi. The Delhi Metro is one of the largest rail networks in the world, and its Airport Express line runs nonstop from Indira Gandhi International toward the New Delhi Railway Station area in about 20 minutes. Air quality drops sharply in winter, when smog from crop-burning and weather inversions can blanket the city for weeks. Outside the metro's reach, Delhi's roads carry some of the densest traffic of any capital, so journeys off the rail network take real planning.

Surrounding hubs

1,426 km / 886 mi
1,580 km / 982 mi
1,630 km / 1,013 mi

Arriving at

SIN

Singapore Changi Airport

Location Singapore, Singapore
Time zone GMT+8 · UTC+8
Current time

The garden city-state

Singapore is a dense, tropical city-state at the tip of the Malay Peninsula, a single island where the city and the country are the same thing. It is famously orderly and green, easy to cross on a clean and frequent metro, and built for the heat and sudden rain. The center mixes high finance, colonial remnants, and hawker food, with residential towers spread across the island. Distances are short, and the transit makes a car unnecessary.

Surrounding hubs

1,118 km / 695 mi
1,417 km / 880 mi
2,218 km / 1,378 mi
How it works

Find out which side of the plane to sit on.

Pick your airports, set your departure time, and you're done.

We calculate the sun's position based on your flight path and departure time, then tell you which side of the plane gets direct sun and which stays shaded. No guessing, just math.

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Enter your flight

Pick your departure and arrival airports and set your departure time at the departure airport. FlightSide estimates the duration and you can adjust it if you know the exact schedule.

02

We track the sun along your route

Your flight path is broken into hundreds of points. At each one we check where the sun is and which side of the plane it faces.

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You get a recommendation

Which side of the plane to sit on, left or right, depending on whether you'd rather avoid the sun or enjoy it. The percentages and the map are there if you want to see why.

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