Distance between Auckland and Dunedin (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Auckland and Dunedin, both in New Zealand, is 1,064 km (661 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
1,064 km
661 miles · straight line
Heading from Auckland
198° (south-southwest)
initial compass bearing to Dunedin
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~1 h 20 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
AucklandDunedinThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Auckland to Dunedin at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 1,064 km (661 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Auckland
- 198° (south-southwest) to Dunedin
- Heading from Dunedin
- 21° (north-northeast) to Auckland
- Midpoint
- 41.3809° S, 172.7816° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 1 h 20 min 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.
- Auckland, New Zealand
- 36.8485° S, 174.7635° E (city centre)
- Dunedin, New Zealand
- 45.8742° S, 170.5036° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Auckland
- Auckland to Hamilton114 km
- Auckland to Tauranga155 km
- Auckland to Wellington493 km
- Auckland to Christchurch765 km
- Auckland to Sydney2,156 km
- Auckland to Los Angeles10,496 km
Other distances from Dunedin
- Dunedin to Christchurch310 km
- Dunedin to Wellington615 km
- Dunedin to Hamilton982 km
- Dunedin to Tauranga1,024 km
Questions
Is 1,064 km (661 miles) the driving distance from Auckland to Dunedin?
No. 1,064 km (661 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 Auckland and Dunedin measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Auckland's centre (36.8485° S, 174.7635° E) to Dunedin's (45.8742° S, 170.5036° 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.