Distance from Barcelona to Melbourne
The great-circle distance between Barcelona, Spain and Melbourne, Australia is 16,828 km (10,457 mi · 9,087 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 16,828 km · 10,457 mi · 9,087 nmi
- Initial bearing Barcelona → Melbourne
- 95° (E)
- Initial bearing Melbourne → Barcelona
- 289° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 20 h 27 min
- Time zones
- Barcelona UTC+02:00 · Melbourne UTC+10:00 (+8 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 570 min — the sun rises later in Barcelona
Flight time is a cruise-speed approximation (no routing/wind); driving distance depends on roads and is typically 20–40% longer than great-circle.
The two cities
- Barcelona
- 41.3888, 2.1590
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 05:40 UTC / 17:49 UTC
- Melbourne
- -37.8140, 144.9633
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 20:10 UTC / 08:17 UTC
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Distances here are straight-line (great-circle). Road routes typically run 1.2–1.4× longer — here's why, with the visual.