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Route · Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific

SYD Sydney ⇄ HND Tokyo

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

Distance7,818 km4,858 mi4,221 nautical miles
SYD → HND10 hestimated block time
HND → SYD9 h 50 minestimated block time
Clock change−2 hTokyo vs Sydney, today
Great-circle route from Sydney (SYD) to Tokyo (HND)SYDSydneyHNDTokyo
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

SYD → HND

10 h

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 350° (N).

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

HND → SYD

9 h 50 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 170° (S).

Leave Tokyo Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Sydney Sat 7 Nov, 21:50 local.

The two directions differ by 7 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 distance7,818 km · 4,858 mi · 4,221 nmi
Initial heading350° (N) from SYD; 170° (S) from HND
Farthest from the equator35.5°N
Crossesthe equator
Share of the longest possible trip39% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

SYDAustralia/Sydney — 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 Sydney 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 SYD → 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

SYD Sydney Kingsford Smith International AirportSydney, Australia · longest runway 12,999 ft3,962 m HND Tokyo Haneda International AirportTokyo, Japan · longest runway 11,024 ft3,360 m

More routes from SYD and HND

SYDCBR Sydney – Canberra 236 km147 mi · 1 h 20 min SYDCHC Sydney – Christchurch 2,126 km1,321 mi · 3 h 15 min SYDMNL Sydney – Manila 6,263 km3,892 mi · 8 h 20 min SYDICN Sydney – Seoul 8,343 km5,184 mi · 10 h 40 min DXBSYD Dubai – Sydney 12,043 km7,483 mi · 14 h 15 min LHRSYD London – Sydney 17,021 km10,576 mi · 19 h 30 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

SEAAMS Seattle – Amsterdam 7,840 km4,872 mi · 9 h 40 min MANCUN Manchester – Cancún 7,794 km4,843 mi · 10 h 40 min FRAPEK Frankfurt – Beijing 7,789 km4,840 mi · 9 h 20 min IAHLHR Houston – London 7,763 km4,824 mi · 9 h 15 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).