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title: "Santiago to Sydney (SCL → SYD): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Santiago to Sydney is 11,340 km (7,047 mi) great circle, an estimated 14h 36m in the air. The route, what it flies over, and why the short way is not the straight line on a map."
url: https://orbitflights.app/routes/scl-to-syd
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SCL → SYD

# Santiago to Sydney: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez to Sydney Kingsford Smith is 11,340 km of great circle — 7,047 mi — and an estimated 14h 36m in the air. It crosses from South America to Oceania.

**Great circle**
11,340 km
7,047 mi

**Estimated in the air**
14h 36m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
61.7°S
at 50% along

**One lap of Earth**
28.3%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 27th longest.

The Santiago to Sydney route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Santiago the path crosses Chile, then 11,057 km of open water.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 61.7°S, 50% of the way along.

Flying the line that looks straight on a Mercator map — one constant compass bearing — would cover 12,774 km. That is 1,434 km further, about 13% more, and roughly 1h 47m of extra flying.

Leaving Santiago the aircraft points south-west (215°); it arrives into Sydney heading north-west (325°). That is 111° of drift without a single turn — the compass moves because the path is a curve on a sphere, not because the aircraft does.

One economy seat on it is about 1.61 t of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

[SCL–SYD carbon footprint →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-carbon-calculator?from=SCL&to=SYD) [Map this route →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=SCL-SYD)

From

SCL

## Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez

Santiago, Chile · South America

33.4°S, 70.8°W

[SCL airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/scl) [Flights to Santiago →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/santiago)

To

SYD

## Sydney Kingsford Smith

Sydney, Australia · Oceania

33.9°S, 151.2°E

[SYD airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/syd) [Flights to Sydney →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/sydney)

## Santiago to Sydney, asked and answered

**How far is Santiago to Sydney?**
Santiago to Sydney (SCL to SYD) is 11,340 km, or 7,047 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Santiago to Sydney?**
About 14h 36m 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 Santiago to Sydney flight take?**
The great circle passes over Chile, then 11,057 km of open water. It reaches 61.7°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.

[Why the shortest path is a curve →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/great-circle-routes-explained)

## Flown this one?

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[Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit)

## Nearby routes

[EZE → SYD Buenos Aires to Sydney 11,767 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/eze-to-syd) [LAX → SYD Los Angeles to Sydney 12,061 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-syd) [YVR → SYD Vancouver to Sydney 12,501 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yvr-to-syd) [DFW → SYD Dallas-Fort Worth to Sydney 13,808 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dfw-to-syd) [SYD → DFW Sydney to Dallas-Fort Worth 13,808 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-dfw) [IAH → SYD Houston to Sydney 13,836 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/iah-to-syd)

## Further reading

[How many miles do you have to fly around the world?](https://orbitflights.app/blog/how-many-miles-to-fly-around-the-world) [What is on the exact opposite side of the world?](https://orbitflights.app/blog/opposite-side-of-the-world) [What's actually worth counting in a flight log](https://orbitflights.app/blog/what-is-worth-counting-in-a-flight-log)

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