Distance between Brisbane and Gold Coast (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Brisbane and Gold Coast, both in Australia, is 71 km (44 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
71 km
44 miles · straight line
Heading from Brisbane
146° (south-southeast)
initial compass bearing to Gold Coast
Midpoint
27.7343° S, 153.2290° E
halfway along the straight line
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
BrisbaneGold CoastThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Brisbane to Gold Coast at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 71 km (44 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Brisbane
- 146° (south-southeast) to Gold Coast
- Heading from Gold Coast
- 326° (northwest) to Brisbane
- Midpoint
- 27.7343° S, 153.2290° E, halfway along the straight line
- Brisbane, Australia
- 27.4679° S, 153.0281° E (city centre)
- Gold Coast, Australia
- 28.0003° S, 153.4309° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Brisbane
- Brisbane to Sydney733 km
- Brisbane to Melbourne1,375 km
- Brisbane to Adelaide1,601 km
- Brisbane to Perth3,606 km
Other distances from Gold Coast
- Gold Coast to Sydney686 km
- Gold Coast to Melbourne1,346 km
- Gold Coast to Adelaide1,601 km
- Gold Coast to Perth3,627 km
Questions
Is 71 km (44 miles) the driving distance from Brisbane to Gold Coast?
No. 71 km (44 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 Brisbane and Gold Coast measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Brisbane's centre (27.4679° S, 153.0281° E) to Gold Coast's (28.0003° S, 153.4309° 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.