- Great circle
- 8,170 km
- 5,077 mi
- Estimated in the air
- 10h 39m
- block time
- Furthest from equator
- 33.9°S
- at 100% along
- One lap of Earth
- 20.4%
- of 40,075 km
Of the 292 routes catalogued here, this is the 77th longest.
What the aircraft actually flies over
From Honolulu the path crosses 8,068 km of open water.
The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 33.9°S, 100% of the way along.
Holding a single compass bearing the whole way would cover almost exactly the same ground, so on this route the flat map and the globe agree.
Leaving Honolulu the aircraft points south-west (222°); it arrives into Sydney heading south-west (229°). That is 7° of drift without a single turn — the compass moves because the path is a curve on a sphere, not because the aircraft does.
HNL
Daniel K. Inouye
Honolulu, United States · Oceania
21.3°N, 157.9°W
SYD
Sydney Kingsford Smith
Sydney, Australia · Oceania
33.9°S, 151.2°E
Honolulu to Sydney, asked and answered
- How far is Honolulu to Sydney?
- Honolulu to Sydney (HNL to SYD) is 8,170 km, or 5,077 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.
- How long is the flight from Honolulu to Sydney?
- About 10h 39m in the air. That is an estimate from the distance at a typical airliner block speed, plus half an hour for taxi, climb and descent; published schedules vary with winds and routing.
- What route does a Honolulu to Sydney flight take?
- The great circle passes over 8,068 km of open water. It reaches 33.9°S at its furthest from the equator.
Where these numbers come from
Distances are computed from the two airports’ own coordinates, not looked up from published routes. Times are estimates, not schedules.
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