Distance from Sydney to Toronto
The great-circle distance between Sydney, Australia and Toronto, Canada is 15,567 km (9,673 mi · 8,405 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 15,567 km · 9,673 mi · 8,405 nmi
- Initial bearing Sydney → Toronto
- 60° (ENE)
- Initial bearing Toronto → Sydney
- 267° (W)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 18 h 58 min
- Time zones
- Sydney UTC+10:00 · Toronto UTC-04:00 (-14 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 812 min — the sun rises earlier in Sydney
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
- Sydney
- -33.8678, 151.2073
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 20:43 UTC / 07:21 UTC
- Toronto
- 43.7064, -79.3986
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 10:15 UTC / 00:33 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.