Distance from Los Angeles to Sydney
Flying the shortest possible route, Sydney lies 12,074 km (7,502 miles, 6,519 nautical miles) from Los Angeles — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 12,074 km · 7,502 mi · 6,519 nmi
- Initial bearing Los Angeles → Sydney
- 241° (WSW)
- Initial bearing Sydney → Los Angeles
- 61° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 14 h 52 min
- Time zones
- Los Angeles UTC-07:00 · Sydney UTC+10:00 (+17 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 1077 min — the sun rises later in Los Angeles
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
- Los Angeles
- 34.0522, -118.2437
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 13:43 UTC / 01:50 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.