Distance between Dubai and Sydney (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and Sydney (Australia) is 12,039 km (7,481 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
12,039 km
7,481 miles · straight line
Heading from Dubai
120° (east-southeast)
initial compass bearing to Sydney
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~15 h 5 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
DubaiSydneyThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Dubai to Sydney at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 12,039 km (7,481 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Dubai
- 120° (east-southeast) to Sydney
- Heading from Sydney
- 288° (west-northwest) to Dubai
- Midpoint
- 6.5389° S, 100.5012° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 15 h 5 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.
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- 25.0772° N, 55.3093° E (city centre)
- Sydney, Australia
- 33.8678° S, 151.2073° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Dubai
- Dubai to Mumbai1,928 km
- Dubai to Delhi2,207 km
- Dubai to Cairo2,430 km
- Dubai to Istanbul3,009 km
- Dubai to Rome4,331 km
- Dubai to Berlin4,638 km
Other distances from Sydney
- Sydney to Gold Coast686 km
- Sydney to Melbourne713 km
- Sydney to Brisbane733 km
- Sydney to Adelaide1,162 km
- Sydney to Auckland2,156 km
- Sydney to Perth3,290 km
Questions
Is 12,039 km (7,481 miles) the driving distance from Dubai to Sydney?
No. 12,039 km (7,481 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 Dubai and Sydney measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Dubai's centre (25.0772° N, 55.3093° E) to Sydney's (33.8678° S, 151.2073° 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.