- IATA
- MEL
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- YMML
- used by air traffic control
- Routes here
- 5
- in the catalogue
- From the equator
- 4,189 km
- 5,819 km from the South pole
Where it sits
37.7°S, 144.8°E puts MEL in the southern hemisphere, 4,189 km from the equator and 5,819 km from the South pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 643rd most northerly, which makes it the 19th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 37.7°N, 35.2°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is João Paulo II (PDL) in Portugal, still 832 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 52 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from MEL
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Los Angeles, at 12,758 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney | SYD | 706 km | 1h 23m |
| Auckland | AKL | 2,637 km | 3h 47m |
| Perth | PER | 2,700 km | 3h 51m |
| Los Angeles | LAX | 12,758 km | 16h 21m |
| Los Angeles | LAX | 12,758 km | 16h 21m |
What’s on this page, and what isn’t
Every figure here is computed from the airport’s coordinates and the rest of the table — distances, bearings, ranks, the antipode. Nothing is written by hand, so nothing on it is a half-remembered fact about a terminal that was rebuilt in 2019.
Which also means what you won’t find: no passenger figures, no terminal maps, no airline lists, no live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that invented those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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