Distance between Adelaide and Brisbane (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Adelaide and Brisbane, both in Australia, is 1,601 km (995 miles), as the crow flies, measured from one city centre to the other. It is the shortest path over the Earth's surface; any road between them is longer.
Straight-line distance
1,601 km
995 miles · straight line
Heading from Adelaide
63° (east-northeast)
initial compass bearing to Brisbane
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~2 h
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
AdelaideBrisbaneThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Adelaide to Brisbane at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 1,601 km (995 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Adelaide
- 63° (east-northeast) to Brisbane
- Heading from Brisbane
- 235° (southwest) to Adelaide
- Midpoint
- 31.4002° S, 146.0997° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 2 h in the air at a cruising speed of 800 km/h along the straight line. Take-off, landing, the real flight path and any stops add more.
- Adelaide, Australia
- 34.9287° S, 138.5986° E (city centre)
- Brisbane, Australia
- 27.4679° S, 153.0281° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Adelaide
- Adelaide to Melbourne654 km
- Adelaide to Sydney1,162 km
- Adelaide to Gold Coast1,601 km
- Adelaide to Perth2,131 km
Other distances from Brisbane
- Brisbane to Gold Coast71 km
- Brisbane to Sydney733 km
- Brisbane to Melbourne1,375 km
- Brisbane to Perth3,606 km
Questions
Is 1,601 km (995 miles) the driving distance from Adelaide to Brisbane?
No. 1,601 km (995 miles) is the straight-line distance between the two city centres, as the crow flies. A road route is always longer, because roads bend around terrain and water, and MapGO does not measure driving distance or travel time.
How is the distance between Adelaide and Brisbane measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Adelaide's centre (34.9287° S, 138.5986° E) to Brisbane's (27.4679° S, 153.0281° E). This is what "straight-line distance" and "as the crow flies" mean on a globe. On a flat map the line can look curved.
How accurate is this distance?
Within about 0.5% for the two centre points. The figure treats the Earth as a sphere (the haversine formula), while the real Earth is slightly flattened, which shifts a long straight-line distance by up to about 0.5%. Measuring from another part of either city changes it more, since a large city can be tens of kilometres across.
Computed by MapGO from each city's centre point (GeoNames) with the haversine formula. All distances on this page are straight lines over the Earth's surface, not road distances.