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title: "Flights to Melbourne: how far it is, and from where · Orbit"
description: "Great circle distances and estimated flying times to Melbourne, Australia, from 5 cities — 706 km at the nearest, 12,758 km at the furthest. Distance and geography, not fares."
url: https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/melbourne
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Australia · Oceania

# Flights to Melbourne: how far it is, and from where

Melbourne sits at 37.7°S, 144.8°E, served by Melbourne (MEL). Below are 5 routes into it, with the great circle distance and an estimated flying time for each.

This page is about distance and geography — there are no fares or schedules on it. For tickets, use a booking site; for how far it actually is and what you fly over to get there, you’re in the right place.

**Routes here**
5
in the catalogue

**Nearest**
706 km
from Sydney

**Furthest**
12,758 km
from Los Angeles

**Airports**
1
MEL

## How far Melbourne is from everywhere else

Great circle distance between the airports, and an estimate of the time in the air. Every row links to the route in full.

| From                                                      |     | Distance  | Estimated | Direction                        |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- | -------------------------------- |
| [Sydney](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-mel)      | SYD | 706 km    | 1h 23m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Auckland](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mel-to-akl)    | AKL | 2,637 km  | 3h 47m    | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Perth](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mel-to-per)       | PER | 2,700 km  | 3h 51m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-mel) | LAX | 12,758 km | 16h 21m   | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mel-to-lax) | LAX | 12,758 km | 16h 21m   | westbound — the easier direction |

## What Melbourne adds to a map

Melbourne puts a pin in Australia, and Oceania is one of the seven continents — the coarsest and most useful measure of how much of the world a flight map actually covers. The furthest route here, from Los Angeles, is 12,758 km: 31.8% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

[What actually counts as a country visited →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/counting-countries)

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