Around the World in 80 Days: Fogg's Route, Dated by the Text

Verne's text dates Phileas Fogg's departure to Wednesday 2 October 1872 and his deadline to Saturday 21 December. This map dates each leg only as far as the novel itself does, chapter by chapter, in an undated Hetzel illustrated printing of the French text.

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Each city stands at its Natural Earth or Wikidata coordinates. The lines between them are approximate. The dates and hours of all 21 legs are in a CSV of Fogg's legs, with the French sentence for each CSV · provenance note Dates, places and quotations from Jules Verne, Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, Project Gutenberg eBook #46541 (Hetzel illustrated edition), and the other sources listed on the entry page, and the places are in a CSV of the places on the maps CSV · provenance note Dates, places and quotations from Jules Verne, Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, Project Gutenberg eBook #46541 (Hetzel illustrated edition), and the other sources listed on the entry page; Base map: Natural Earth (public domain); Place coordinates: Natural Earth (public domain) and Wikidata (CC0).

Date kept apart	What this map uses
Story date	1872, printed in chapter I
Text followed	Hetzel illustrated edition, Paris, with no year on the title page (Project Gutenberg eBook #46541)
Base map	Natural Earth version 5.1.2 (public domain), released in 2022

What route does Fogg take, by the novel's own dates?

The novel fixes its start to the minute. In chapter I, Fogg tells his new servant that he is in service “à partir de ce moment, onze heures vingt-neuf du matin, ce mercredi 2 octobre 1872” (“from this moment, twenty-nine minutes past eleven in the morning, this Wednesday 2 October 1872,” Genre Fiction Lineage translation). At the Reform Club that day, he bets that he will be back in the same room on “le samedi 21 décembre, à huit heures quarante-cinq du soir” (“Saturday 21 December, at a quarter to nine in the evening”).

Fogg's notebook in chapter VII logs the first legs to the minute. He leaves London at 8.45 p.m. on 2 October, reaches Paris at 7.20 the next morning, crosses the Mont Cenis to Turin on the 4th, and arrives at Brindisi on the 5th and at Suez on Wednesday 9 October at 11 a.m.

After Suez, the dates arrive less often. The steamer Mongolia reaches Bombay on 20 October, and rail and an elephant carry Fogg to Calcutta by the 25th. Ships take him by Singapore and Hong Kong to Yokohama on 14 November, and the General Grant reaches San Francisco on 3 December. Trains and a sledge under sail bring him to New York on the 11th, and he lands at Liverpool on 21 December.

The page counts 21 legs. Fifteen of them end on a date the text prints. The other six end on a date counted from words such as “le lendemain” (“the next day”), and the CSV marks which is which.

How long is each leg?

Before Fogg leaves, a club member reads out a reckoning from the Morning Chronicle in chapter III. It allows seven days from London to Suez, 13 to Bombay, three to Calcutta, 13 to Hong Kong, six to Yokohama, 22 to San Francisco, seven to New York and nine to London, “Total 80 jours.” Set against the arrival dates the novel prints, the total holds. The legs do not.

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Leg	Plan (chapter III)	Arrival printed	Days by printed dates
London to Suez	7	9 October (VII)	7
Suez to Bombay	13	20 October (IX)	11
Bombay to Calcutta	3	25 October (XIV)	5
Calcutta to Hong Kong	13	6 November (XVIII)	12
Hong Kong to Yokohama	6	14 November (XXIV)	8
Yokohama to San Francisco	22	3 December (XXIV)	19
San Francisco to New York	7	11 December (XXXI)	8
New York to London	9	21 December (XXXIV, XXXVII)	10
Total	80		80

The Mongolia gains two days on the plan, and India takes those two days back. The Pacific crossing runs three days under the reckoning, and every leg after it runs one day over. The gaps were computed two ways from the CSV of the plan and the printed dates CSV · provenance note Dates, places and quotations from Jules Verne, Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, Project Gutenberg eBook #46541 (Hetzel illustrated edition), and the other sources listed on the entry page, counting whole calendar days between the arrival dates.

Fogg's own arithmetic is not quite exact either. His notebook totals the London to Suez leg as “158 1/2” hours, while the clock times he logs, 8.45 p.m. on the 2nd to 11 a.m. on the 9th, are 158 hours and a quarter apart.

Where does the railway stop in India?

The Morning Chronicle figure of 80 days assumes that “la section entre Rothal et Allahabad” (“the section between Rothal and Allahabad”) is open. In chapter XI, on 22 October at eight in the morning, the train stops in a clearing “à quinze milles en avant de la station de Rothal” (“fifteen miles short of Rothal station”). The guard names the hamlet as Kholby and says about fifty miles of line are still to be laid before Allahabad.

Fogg buys an elephant and leaves at nine. After a night at a ruined bungalow and a night at the pagoda of Pillaji, the guide announces Allahabad station “vers dix heures” (“towards ten o'clock”), and the train reaches Calcutta at seven the next morning. Chapter XIV prints that date as 25 October, so the Allahabad date, 24 October, is counted back from it.

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Neither Kholby nor Rothal appears in Natural Earth, and the text gives the pagoda only a distance from the elephant's path. All three are listed as not placed, so the dashed line from Burhampour to Allahabad stands for a stretch the novel describes but does not map.

Where do the printed dates disagree?

Twice, the text gives two dates for one event. In chapter XIX, a clerk tells Passepartout that the Carnatic will sail for Yokohama “le soir même à huit heures” (“that same evening at eight”), which is the evening of 6 November, and in chapter XX Fogg learns the next morning that it left “depuis la veille” (“the day before”). Chapter XXII, which follows Passepartout on board, has the ship leaving Hong Kong “le 7 novembre, à six heures et demie du soir” (“on 7 November, at half past six in the evening”).

The Pacific crossing has the second, aboard the General Grant, which chapter XXIV describes as a large paddle steamer with a beam rocking above its deck. The same chapter puts the ship on the 180th meridian on 23 November, and then, “Onze jours après, le 3 décembre” (“eleven days later, on 3 December”), in San Francisco. Eleven days after 23 November is 4 December.

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The map uses the printed date in each case. The Carnatic carries Passepartout, not Fogg, so its sailing changes none of Fogg's legs, and San Francisco keeps the 3 December the text prints.

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How does Fogg gain a day?

Verne explains it himself in chapter XXXVII. Travelling east, Fogg met the sun, and each day was shorter by four minutes for every degree he crossed; 360 degrees times four minutes make 24 hours. In his words, while Fogg “voyait le soleil passer quatre-vingts fois au méridien, ses collègues restés à Londres ne le voyaient passer que soixante-dix-neuf fois” (“saw the sun pass the meridian eighty times, his colleagues left in London saw it pass only seventy-nine times”). So when Fogg landed in London thinking it was Saturday 21 December, it was Friday 20 December, 79 days after he left.

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That changes how the last dates read. The CSV keeps every date as the text prints it, and the final leg carries the London date beside Fogg's count.

Where does the journey start and end?

Both ends are in London. Fogg lives at No. 7 Saville Row, and in chapter III he walks to the Reform Club in 575 steps of the right foot and 576 of the left. Passepartout is hired at the house that same Wednesday morning, at 11.29.

Chapter XXXVI ends in the club's salon. As the clock reaches 8.45 on Saturday 21 December by London's calendar, Fogg walks in, followed by a crowd, and says “Me voici, messieurs” (“Here I am, gentlemen”).

How did the novel reach English readers?

According to SFE, the novel first ran as a newspaper serial in Le Temps in 1872, before the 1873 Hetzel book. The newspaper itself was not checked for this page. SFE's bibliography lists George M. Towle's translation, The Tour of the World in 80 Days, as published in Boston by J. R. Osgood in 1873, while the main text of the same entry gives 1874 for it. The CSV of the lineage strip CSV · provenance note Dates, places and quotations from Jules Verne, Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, Project Gutenberg eBook #46541 (Hetzel illustrated edition), and the other sources listed on the entry page keeps both.

• Solid: documented influence (the later author's own statement, letter, review or note)
• Dashed: shared device (similar texts, no borrowing claimed)
• Dotted: dates only (publication order or other dates; no link claimed)

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Project Gutenberg's English text, eBook #103, carries Towle's name but does not say which printing it follows, so the English quotations on this page are new translations. For a French detective series that was in print before this novel, see Émile Gaboriau's Lecoq (printed earlier).

Which text does this map follow?

A chapter and a date only mean something in a named text. This map follows Project Gutenberg's transcription of a Hetzel illustrated edition with drawings by Neuville and Benett, whose title page gives the publisher as “J. HETZEL ET Cie, 18, RUE JACOB” and no year. The printer's line at the end reads “Imp. Gauthier-Villars, quai des Grands-Augustins, 55.—1757-73.”

The transcribers list the misprints they corrected. One of them is a date. In chapter IX, the day after leaving Suez was printed as the 29th and is corrected to “le 10 octobre” (“10 October”), which is the date this map uses.

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The two engravings come from a different copy, catalogued by the National Library of Poland as Hetzel, 1874, and were not compared page by page with the transcription. Present-day place names come from Natural Earth or from the Wikidata item for each place.

Places on the map

The English below is Genre Fiction Lineage translation; the French sentence for each place is in the places CSV.

• London: chapter VII, “Left London, Wednesday 2 October, 8.45 p.m.” (exact)
• Paris: chapter VII, “Arrived at Paris, Thursday 3 October, 7.20 a.m.” (exact)
• Turin: chapter VII, “Arrived at Turin by the Mont Cenis, Friday 4 October” (exact)
• Brindisi: chapter VII, “Arrived at Brindisi, Saturday 5 October, 4 p.m.” (exact)
• Suez: chapter VII, “Arrived at Suez, Wednesday 9 October, 11 a.m.” (exact)
• Aden: chapter IX, “it called at Steamer Point, north-west of the Aden roads” (approximate)
• Bombay: chapter X, “the passengers of the Mongolia had landed at Bombay” (exact)
• Nassik: chapter XI, “the train crossed the Ghats and passed through Nassik” (exact)
• Burhampour: chapter XI, “the train stopped at Burhampour station” (exact)
• Kholby: chapter XI, “At the hamlet of Kholby” (not placed)
• Rothal: chapter XI, “fifteen miles short of Rothal station” (not placed)
• The pagoda of Pillaji: chapter XII, “To the pagoda of Pillaji, two miles from here” (not placed)
• Allahabad: chapter XIV, “the guide announced Allahabad station” (exact)
• Benares: chapter XIV, “the train stopped at Benares station” (exact)
• Calcutta: chapter XIV, “At last, at seven in the morning, Calcutta was reached” (exact)
• Singapore: chapter XVII, “put in at Singapore to take on coal” (exact)
• Hong Kong: chapter XVIII, “that crowded the channels of Hong Kong” (exact)
• Off Shanghai: chapter XXI, “no more than forty-five miles from Shanghai” (approximate)
• Yokohama: chapter XXII, “the Carnatic entered the port of Yokohama” (exact)
• The 180th meridian: chapter XXIV, “on 23 November, passed the hundred-and-eightieth meridian” (not placed)
• San Francisco: chapter XXIV, “entered the bay of the Golden Gate and reached San Francisco” (exact)
• Ogden: chapter XXVII, “the travellers got off at Ogden station” (exact)
• Medicine Bow: chapter XXVIII, “The Medicine Bow bridge is shaken” (approximate)
• Kearney: chapter XXIX, “less than a hundred paces from Kearney station” (approximate)
• Omaha: chapter XXXI, “they all rushed to Omaha station” (exact)
• Chicago: chapter XXXI, “at four in the afternoon, it reached Chicago” (exact)
• New York: chapter XXXI, “the station on the right bank of the river” (approximate)
• Queenstown: chapter XXXIII, “the Henrietta entered Queenstown harbour” (exact)
• Dublin: chapter XXXIII, “reached Dublin at daybreak” (exact)
• Liverpool: chapter XXXIII, “Phileas Fogg at last landed on the quay at Liverpool” (exact)

Sources

1. 1Jules Verne, Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, illustrated by Alphonse de Neuville and Léon Benett, Project Gutenberg eBook #46541, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46541 (base text: a Hetzel illustrated edition, Paris: J. Hetzel et Cie, 18 rue Jacob, with no year on the title page; printer's line "Imp. Gauthier-Villars ... 1757-73"; transcribed from an Internet Archive scan from Canadian libraries) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46541Read: full text, all 37 chapters, the table of contents and the transcribers' list of corrections
2. 2"Verne, Jules," in John Clute, David Langford and Graham Sleight (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/verne_jules, accessed 2 November 2026 https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/verne_julesRead: full entry (updated 27 July 2026), text and bibliography lines for Le Tour du monde
3. 3Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days, translated by George M. Towle, Project Gutenberg eBook #103, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/103 (base printing not stated) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/103Read: header and contents only
4. 4Project Gutenberg catalogue records for eBooks #46541, #103 and #20975 (read in the catalogue feed pg_catalog.csv), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46541 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46541Read: the rows for Verne's novel and for Nellie Bly
5. 5Natural Earth, version 5.1.2 (released 13 May 2022), 1:110m and 1:50m land, 1:50m populated places and 1:10m populated places (simple), from the publisher's GitHub repository nvkelso/natural-earth-vector, https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vectorRead: the four GeoJSON layers named, the repository licence and the latest-release recordText licence: Public domain
6. 6Wikidata items Q733093 (Cóbh, alias Queenstown), Q1028483 (Medicine Bow) and Q162442 (Prayagraj, alias Allahabad), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q733093, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1028483 and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q162442 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q733093Read: the three items' EntityData JSONText licence: CC0
7. 7Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle, "Public Domain Day 2026," Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/Read: full pageText licence: CC BY 4.0
8. 8Urheberrechtsgesetz § 64 (Allgemeines), gesetze-im-internet.de https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__64.htmlRead: full text of the section

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Genre Fiction Lineage. “Around the World in 80 Days: Fogg's Route, Dated by the Text.” Genre Fiction Lineage, published 3 November 2026. https://genrefictionlineage.com/scene-maps/around-world-80-days/. Accessed [the date you read it].

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