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title: "Sydney to Nadi (SYD → NAN): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Sydney to Nadi is 3,169 km (1,969 mi) great circle, an estimated 4h 26m 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-nan
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SYD → NAN

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

Sydney Kingsford Smith to Nadi is 3,169 km of great circle — 1,969 mi — and an estimated 4h 26m in the air. Both ends are in Oceania.

**Great circle**
3,169 km
1,969 mi

**Estimated in the air**
4h 26m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
33.9°S
at 0% along

**One lap of Earth**
7.9%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 166th longest.

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

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Sydney the path crosses 3,137 km of open water.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 33.9°S, 0% 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 Sydney the aircraft points north-east (62°); it arrives into Nadi heading north-east (50°). That is 12° 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 470 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

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

NAN

## Nadi

Nadi, Fiji · Oceania

17.8°S, 177.4°E

[NAN airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/nan)

## Sydney to Nadi, asked and answered

**How far is Sydney to Nadi?**
Sydney to Nadi (SYD to NAN) is 3,169 km, or 1,969 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Sydney to Nadi?**
About 4h 26m 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 Nadi flight take?**
The great circle passes over 3,137 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.

[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

[SYD → PER Sydney to Perth 3,277 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-per) [SYD → POM Sydney to Port Moresby 2,754 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-pom) [SYD → AKL Sydney to Auckland 2,159 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-akl) [AKL → NAN Auckland to Nadi 2,156 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/akl-to-nan) [SYD → CHC Sydney to Christchurch 2,126 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-chc) [SYD → DPS Sydney to Bali 4,622 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-dps)

## 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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