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MEL Melbourne ⇄ HND Tokyo

Melbourne Airport (Australia) and Tokyo Haneda International Airport (Japan): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance8,158 km5,069 mi4,405 nautical miles
MEL → HND10 h 20 minestimated block time
HND → MEL10 h 15 minestimated block time
Clock change−2 hTokyo vs Melbourne, today
Great-circle route from Melbourne (MEL) to Tokyo (HND)MELMelbourneHNDTokyo
The shortest path over the Earth’s surface (great circle), drawn on a Natural Earth projection. Real flight paths bend around weather, winds and closed airspace.

Flight time each way

MEL → HND

10 h 20 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 356° (N).

Leave Melbourne Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Tokyo Sat 7 Nov, 18:20 local.

HND → MEL

10 h 15 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 176° (S).

Leave Tokyo Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Melbourne Sat 7 Nov, 22:15 local.

The two directions differ by 4 minutes in our estimate: this route runs mostly north–south, so the prevailing westerly winds make little difference. How we estimate it.

Distance

Great-circle distance8,158 km · 5,069 mi · 4,405 nmi
Initial heading356° (N) from MEL; 176° (S) from HND
Farthest from the equator37.7°S
Crossesthe equator
Share of the longest possible trip41% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

MELAustralia/Melbourne — UTC+11 now; UTC+10 standard time, UTC+11 during daylight saving time
HNDAsia/Tokyo — UTC+9 now; UTC+9 all year (no daylight saving time)
DifferenceTokyo is 2 hours behind Melbourne today; −2 h in January and −1 h in July because daylight saving time starts and ends on different dates (or not at all).

Jet lag, flying MEL → HND. Your body clock has to move 2 hours later, like a westward trip. A shift this small rarely causes much jet lag; most people feel normal within a day or so. Flying the other way, the shift is reversed.

General information, not medical advice.

The two airports

MEL Melbourne AirportMelbourne, Australia · longest runway 11,998 ft3,657 m HND Tokyo Haneda International AirportTokyo, Japan · longest runway 11,024 ft3,360 m

More routes from MEL and HND

MELHBA Melbourne – Hobart 618 km384 mi · 1 h 45 min SYDMEL Sydney – Melbourne 706 km438 mi · 1 h 55 min MELAKL Melbourne – Auckland 2,637 km1,639 mi · 3 h 45 min MELDPS Melbourne – Bali (Denpasar) 4,381 km2,722 mi · 6 h 15 min DXBMEL Dubai – Melbourne 11,644 km7,235 mi · 13 h 50 min DFWMEL Dallas–Fort Worth – Melbourne 14,475 km8,995 mi · 18 h 15 min HNDITM Tokyo – Osaka 404 km251 mi · 1 h 35 min HNDOKA Tokyo – Okinawa (Naha) 1,555 km966 mi · 2 h 55 min HNLHND Honolulu – Tokyo 6,191 km3,847 mi · 8 h 45 min SFOHND San Francisco – Tokyo 8,286 km5,148 mi · 11 h 30 min LHRHND London – Tokyo 9,592 km5,960 mi · 11 h 35 min JFKHND New York – Tokyo 10,875 km6,758 mi · 13 h 55 min

Routes of a similar length

LHRPEK London – Beijing 8,154 km5,067 mi · 9 h 50 min HNLSYD Honolulu – Sydney 8,170 km5,077 mi · 10 h 35 min LHRSEZ London – Mahé 8,176 km5,080 mi · 10 h SFODUB San Francisco – Dublin 8,183 km5,085 mi · 9 h 55 min

Need a different pair? The flight-time calculator works for any two of 3,245 airports. Not covered: which airlines fly this route, schedules, fares and live status — that data is proprietary and we don’t guess it.

Photos on airport pages are credited there. Estimates are rounded to 5 minutes; typical error about 13 minutes (validation).