Distance from Beijing to Sydney
Flying the shortest possible route, Sydney lies 8,949 km (5,560 miles, 4,832 nautical miles) from Beijing — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 8,949 km · 5,560 mi · 4,832 nmi
- Initial bearing Beijing → Sydney
- 151° (SSE)
- Initial bearing Sydney → Beijing
- 334° (NNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 11 h 11 min
- Time zones
- Beijing UTC+08:00 · Sydney UTC+10:00 (+2 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 138 min — the sun rises later in Beijing
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
- Beijing
- 39.9075, 116.3972
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 22:03 UTC / 10:13 UTC
- Sydney
- -33.8678, 151.2073
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 19:45 UTC / 07:52 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.