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title: "Sydney to Tokyo (SYD → HND): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Sydney to Tokyo is 7,818 km (4,858 mi) great circle, an estimated 10h 13m 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/syd-to-hnd
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SYD → HND

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

Sydney Kingsford Smith to Tokyo Haneda is 7,818 km of great circle — 4,858 mi — and an estimated 10h 13m in the air. It crosses from Oceania to Asia.

**Great circle**
7,818 km
4,858 mi

**Estimated in the air**
10h 13m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
35.5°N
at 100% along

**One lap of Earth**
19.5%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 83rd longest.

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

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Sydney the path crosses Australia, then 1,231 km of open water, then Papua New Guinea, then 4,573 km of open water.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 35.5°N, 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.

It arrives on almost the heading it left on — north at both ends. The two airports sit at nearly mirrored latitudes, so the arc climbs away from the equator and falls back to it by the same amount, and the compass ends up where it started.

One economy seat on it is about 1.11 t of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

From

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)

To

HND

## Tokyo Haneda

Tokyo, Japan · Asia

35.5°N, 139.8°E

[HND airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/hnd) [Flights to Tokyo →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/tokyo)

## Sydney to Tokyo, asked and answered

**How far is Sydney to Tokyo?**
Sydney to Tokyo (SYD to HND) is 7,818 km, or 4,858 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Sydney to Tokyo?**
About 10h 13m 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 Sydney to Tokyo flight take?**
The great circle passes over Australia, then 1,231 km of open water, then Papua New Guinea, then 4,573 km of open water. It reaches 35.5°N 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

[SEA → HND Seattle to Tokyo 7,711 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sea-to-hnd) [HNL → SYD Honolulu to Sydney 8,170 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnl-to-syd) [SFO → HND San Francisco to Tokyo 8,285 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-hnd) [LAX → HND Los Angeles to Tokyo 8,812 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-hnd) [SYD → SIN Sydney to Singapore 6,293 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-sin) [HNL → HND Honolulu to Tokyo 6,191 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnl-to-hnd)

## 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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