Distance between Gold Coast and Sydney (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Gold Coast and Sydney, both in Australia, is 686 km (426 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
686 km
426 miles · straight line
Heading from Gold Coast
197° (south-southwest)
initial compass bearing to Sydney
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~50 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
Gold CoastSydneyThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Gold Coast to Sydney at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 686 km (426 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Gold Coast
- 197° (south-southwest) to Sydney
- Heading from Sydney
- 19° (north-northeast) to Gold Coast
- Midpoint
- 30.9388° S, 152.3533° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 50 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.
- Gold Coast, Australia
- 28.0003° S, 153.4309° E (city centre)
- Sydney, Australia
- 33.8678° S, 151.2073° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Gold Coast
- Gold Coast to Brisbane71 km
- Gold Coast to Melbourne1,346 km
- Gold Coast to Adelaide1,601 km
- Gold Coast to Perth3,627 km
Other distances from Sydney
- Sydney to Melbourne713 km
- Sydney to Brisbane733 km
- Sydney to Adelaide1,162 km
- Sydney to Auckland2,156 km
- Sydney to Perth3,290 km
- Sydney to Singapore6,299 km
Questions
Is 686 km (426 miles) the driving distance from Gold Coast to Sydney?
No. 686 km (426 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 Gold Coast and Sydney measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Gold Coast's centre (28.0003° S, 153.4309° 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.