Distance from Buenos Aires to Sydney
Flying the shortest possible route, Sydney lies 11,800 km (7,332 miles, 6,372 nautical miles) from Buenos Aires — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,800 km · 7,332 mi · 6,372 nmi
- Initial bearing Buenos Aires → Sydney
- 205° (SSW)
- Initial bearing Sydney → Buenos Aires
- 155° (SSE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 14 h 32 min
- Time zones
- Buenos Aires UTC-03:00 · Sydney UTC+10:00 (+13 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 837 min — the sun rises later in Buenos Aires
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
- Buenos Aires
- -34.6131, -58.3772
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 09:42 UTC / 21:51 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.