How Close Is the War?

From Cologne: 1,120 km to Ukraine.

That's about as far as Barcelona and Rome. Mallorca, Malaga and Athens are farther away.

Measure to

About as far away: 1,120 km

  • NorthBergen1,060 km
  • NortheastStockholm1,170 km
  • EastLublin1,090 km
  • SoutheastBelgrade1,210 km
  • SoutheastRome1,090 km
  • SouthBarcelona1,120 km
  • WestCork1,070 km
You're at the centre, and every distance from it is true. The ring is the distance you chose, yellow is Ukraine and dark red is the front line.

Closer than your holiday

Straight-line distances.

  • Paris400 km
  • Berlin480 km
  • London500 km
  • Prague540 km
  • Rome1,090 km
  • Ukraine's border1,120 km
  • Barcelona1,120 km
  • Mallorca1,310 km
  • Kyiv1,650 km
  • Malaga1,820 km
  • Front line1,860 km
  • Athens1,950 km

Help Ukraine

Look at each one yourself before you give.

  • Ukrainian Red Cross

    Emergency aid, first aid and support for people hit by strikes across Ukraine.

  • Voices of Children

    Psychological support for children affected by the war.

  • UNHCR

    The UN refugee agency: shelter and support for people forced from their homes.

More organisations and other ways to help

Questions

How far is Cologne from Ukraine?

Cologne is about 1,120 km from the nearest point in Ukraine, measured in a straight line. Kyiv is about 1,650 km away.

How far is the front line from Cologne?

The nearest point on the front line is about 1,860 km from Cologne. The figure changes when the front moves.

Why measure to the border and not only the front line?

Russian missiles and drones reach all of Ukraine, not only the front. On 14 October 2026 a Russian drone attack killed six people in Lutsk, less than 100 km from the Polish border.

What if I don't live in Europe?

The site is written for Europe, where people often call the war far away. Outside Europe it often is far, and the page says so. It then draws a European city's distance to Ukraine around your home.

How can I help Ukraine?

Give to organisations that work there, such as the Ukrainian Red Cross or Voices of Children, and tell your elected representatives what you think. The help page lists more.

Is the war in Ukraine still going on?

Yes. As of 8 November 2026, fighting continues along a front line that runs from northern Sumy Oblast to the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast, and Russia keeps striking cities across the country.

How are the distances calculated?

All distances are great-circle distances, the shortest path along the Earth's surface, rounded to 10 km. The map uses an azimuthal equidistant projection, so every distance measured from the centre is true. Ukraine's outline follows its internationally recognised borders, including Crimea. The front line is drawn by hand from Institute for the Study of War (ISW) assessments and is accurate to about 30 km. Last updated 8 November 2026.

Do you store my address?

No. We have no accounts or cookies, and we don't save anything you type. The site runs on Cloudflare, which counts visits and countries, and Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views without cookies or tracking individual visitors. To suggest addresses, your browser sends what you type to Komoot's Photon service. If you press the button without picking a suggestion, it goes to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service instead. Your device location stays in your browser. The page also loads map code from Cloudflare's cdnjs. Fonts come from this site.

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Sources and method. Sources: Institute for the Study of War, Kyiv Independent. Address search by Photon and Nominatim, data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Country shapes from Datamaps. Last updated 8 November 2026.