Distance from Barcelona to Sydney
The great-circle distance between Barcelona, Spain and Sydney, Australia is 17,181 km (10,676 mi · 9,277 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 17,181 km · 10,676 mi · 9,277 nmi
- Initial bearing Barcelona → Sydney
- 83° (E)
- Initial bearing Sydney → Barcelona
- 296° (WNW)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 20 h 52 min
- Time zones
- Barcelona UTC+02:00 · Sydney UTC+10:00 (+8 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 491 min — the sun rises later in Barcelona
Flight time is a cruise-speed approximation (no routing/wind); driving distance depends on roads and is typically 20–40% longer than great-circle.
The two cities
- Barcelona
- 41.3888, 2.1590
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 04:54 UTC / 19:02 UTC
- Sydney
- -33.8678, 151.2073
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 20:43 UTC / 07:21 UTC
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Distances here are straight-line (great-circle). Road routes typically run 1.2–1.4× longer — here's why, with the visual.