Distance between Melbourne and Perth (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Melbourne and Perth, both in Australia, is 2,721 km (1,691 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
2,721 km
1,691 miles · straight line
Heading from Melbourne
275° (west)
initial compass bearing to Perth
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~3 h 25 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
MelbournePerthThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Melbourne to Perth at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 2,721 km (1,691 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Melbourne
- 275° (west) to Perth
- Heading from Perth
- 112° (east-southeast) to Melbourne
- Midpoint
- 35.7631° S, 129.8815° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 3 h 25 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.
- Melbourne, Australia
- 37.8140° S, 144.9633° E (city centre)
- Perth, Australia
- 31.9522° S, 115.8614° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Melbourne
- Melbourne to Adelaide654 km
- Melbourne to Sydney713 km
- Melbourne to Gold Coast1,346 km
- Melbourne to Brisbane1,375 km
- Melbourne to London16,904 km
Other distances from Perth
- Perth to Adelaide2,131 km
- Perth to Sydney3,290 km
- Perth to Brisbane3,606 km
- Perth to Gold Coast3,627 km
- Perth to London14,479 km
Questions
Is 2,721 km (1,691 miles) the driving distance from Melbourne to Perth?
No. 2,721 km (1,691 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 Melbourne and Perth measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Melbourne's centre (37.8140° S, 144.9633° E) to Perth's (31.9522° S, 115.8614° 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.