Distance between Perth and Sydney (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Perth and Sydney, both in Australia, is 3,290 km (2,044 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
3,290 km
2,044 miles · straight line
Heading from Perth
103° (east-southeast)
initial compass bearing to Sydney
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~4 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.
PerthSydneyThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Perth to Sydney at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 3,290 km (2,044 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Perth
- 103° (east-southeast) to Sydney
- Heading from Sydney
- 264° (west) to Perth
- Midpoint
- 34.1855° S, 133.3368° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 4 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.
- Perth, Australia
- 31.9522° S, 115.8614° E (city centre)
- Sydney, Australia
- 33.8678° S, 151.2073° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Perth
- Perth to Adelaide2,131 km
- Perth to Melbourne2,721 km
- Perth to Brisbane3,606 km
- Perth to Gold Coast3,627 km
- Perth to London14,479 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 Singapore6,299 km
Questions
Is 3,290 km (2,044 miles) the driving distance from Perth to Sydney?
No. 3,290 km (2,044 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 Perth and Sydney measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Perth's centre (31.9522° S, 115.8614° 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.