Distance from Dubai to Melbourne
Flying the shortest possible route, Melbourne lies 11,654 km (7,241 miles, 6,293 nautical miles) from Dubai — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,654 km · 7,241 mi · 6,293 nmi
- Initial bearing Dubai → Melbourne
- 125° (SE)
- Initial bearing Melbourne → Dubai
- 290° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 14 h 22 min
- Time zones
- Dubai UTC+04:00 · Melbourne UTC+10:00 (+6 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 359 min — the sun rises later in Dubai
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
- Dubai
- 25.0772, 55.3093
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 02:08 UTC / 14:16 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.