Distance from Paris to Sydney
The great-circle distance between Paris, France and Sydney, Australia is 16,961 km (10,539 mi · 9,158 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 16,961 km · 10,539 mi · 9,158 nmi
- Initial bearing Paris → Sydney
- 69° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Sydney → Paris
- 312° (NW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 20 h 37 min
- Time zones
- Paris UTC+01:00 · Sydney UTC+11:00 (+10 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 719 min — the sun rises later in Paris
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
- Paris
- 48.8534, 2.3488
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 06:49 UTC / 16:21 UTC
- Sydney
- -33.8678, 151.2073
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 18:50 UTC / 08:30 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.