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title: "Sydney to Port Moresby (SYD → POM): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Sydney to Port Moresby is 2,754 km (1,711 mi) great circle, an estimated 3h 55m 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-pom
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SYD → POM

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

Sydney Kingsford Smith to Port Moresby Jacksons is 2,754 km of great circle — 1,711 mi — and an estimated 3h 55m in the air. Both ends are in Oceania.

**Great circle**
2,754 km
1,711 mi

**Estimated in the air**
3h 55m
block time

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

**One lap of Earth**
6.9%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 172nd longest.

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

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Sydney the path crosses Australia, then 1,212 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.

The heading barely moves: north out of Sydney, north into Port Moresby. Over this distance the curve has too little room to bend the compass.

One economy seat on it is about 408 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

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

POM

## Port Moresby Jacksons

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea · Oceania

9.4°S, 147.2°E

[POM airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/pom)

## Sydney to Port Moresby, asked and answered

**How far is Sydney to Port Moresby?**
Sydney to Port Moresby (SYD to POM) is 2,754 km, or 1,711 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Sydney to Port Moresby?**
About 3h 55m 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 Port Moresby flight take?**
The great circle passes over Australia, then 1,212 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 → NAN Sydney to Nadi 3,169 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-nan) [SYD → PER Sydney to Perth 3,277 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-per) [SYD → AKL Sydney to Auckland 2,159 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-akl) [SYD → CHC Sydney to Christchurch 2,126 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-chc) [SYD → ADL Sydney to Adelaide 1,164 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-adl) [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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