Flight Time from Los Angeles (LAX) to Bogotá (BOG)

Block time for Los Angeles → Bogotá is about 7.25 hours non-stop on the site's cruise model. Each stopover adds ground dwell at the hub, so the totals model out to about 10.8 hours for one stop and 14.8 for two.

At 5,597 km the sector sits in the everyday long-haul band: a non-stop is the benchmark, and connections only make sense when the fare saving clears a couple of hundred dollars. The clock moves 3 h forward (UTC−8 → UTC−5), so a morning departure can land well into the local evening.

Cartagena (CTG) is the nearest alternative endpoint, 650 km from Bogotá — close enough that some fares from LAX price it as the same destination. From LAX, reaching CTG instead takes about 1.4 h — less airborne time than the 7.25 h non-stop, and the surface leg into Bogotá still has to be won back.

Companion flight-time pages exist for 1 of these alternatives (CTG first among them) — see Related calculators. Weigh each alternative against its back-distance to Bogotá — from LAX, a cheap fare hundreds of km from your actual destination is rarely cheap once the surface leg is priced.

Leave Los Angeles at 10:00 and the local arrival clock in Bogotá reads about 20:15, which tells you whether day one is recoverable. Hotel, meal and transit averages put a Bogotá day at $91 against $268 in Los Angeles — worth weighing against any fare premium for better flight times.

Bogotá undercuts Los Angeles by $176 a day on the dataset averages; let that shape how many nights you book at each end. The modest 3-hour eastbound shift keeps the Los Angeles–Bogotá trip easy to absorb.