Distance between New York and Sydney (straight line)
The straight-line distance between New York (United States) and Sydney (Australia) is 9,935 miles (15,989 km), 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
9,935 miles
15,989 km · straight line
Heading from New York
266° (west)
initial compass bearing to Sydney
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~20 h
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
New YorkSydneyThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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New York to Sydney at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 9,935 miles (15,989 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from New York
- 266° (west) to Sydney
- Heading from Sydney
- 66° (east-northeast) to New York
- Midpoint
- 8.7933° N, 147.6427° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 20 h 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.
- New York, United States
- 40.7143° N, 74.0060° W (city centre)
- Sydney, Australia
- 33.8678° S, 151.2073° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from New York
- New York to Toronto345 miles
- New York to Chicago712 miles
- New York to Miami1,092 miles
- New York to Houston1,417 miles
- New York to Mexico City2,087 miles
- New York to Las Vegas2,227 miles
Other distances from Sydney
- Sydney to Gold Coast426 miles
- Sydney to Melbourne443 miles
- Sydney to Brisbane455 miles
- Sydney to Adelaide722 miles
- Sydney to Auckland1,340 miles
- Sydney to Perth2,044 miles
Questions
Is 9,935 miles (15,989 km) the driving distance from New York to Sydney?
No. 9,935 miles (15,989 km) 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 New York and Sydney measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from New York's centre (40.7143° N, 74.0060° W) 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.