✈ DFW → SYD
17H 11M FROM DALLAS TO SYDNEY. THIS IS NOT TRAVEL. THIS IS ENDURANCE.
Flight from Dallas to Sydney
From Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), USA North America → Kingsford Smith (SYD), Australia Oceania
↔ Flying the other way? Sydney → Dallas
How long is the flight from Dallas to Sydney?
A nonstop flight from Dallas (DFW) to Sydney (SYD) takes about 17 hours 11 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 8,580 miles (13,808 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
17h 11m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
8,580 mi
13,808 km · great-circle
Avg speed
803 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Dallas timezone
UTC-5
America/Chicago
Sydney timezone
UTC+10
Australia/Sydney
Time difference
+15h
15 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~15d
Eastward — worse
CO₂ footprint per passenger
Economy class, single passenger. Source: DEFRA 2024 averages.
This flight emits roughly 3.6× the CO₂ of an equivalent train trip and 0.9× a car driven alone over the same distance.
Flights from Dallas
Nearest destinations
- Dallas → Atlanta
- Dallas → Chicago
- Dallas → Mexico City
- Dallas → Cancun
- Dallas → Las Vegas
- Dallas → Miami
- Dallas → Toronto
- Dallas → Los Angeles
- Dallas → New York
- Dallas → San Francisco
Long-haul from Dallas
- Dallas → Bali (Denpasar)
- Dallas → Singapore
- Dallas → Kuala Lumpur
- Dallas → Johannesburg
- Dallas → Bangkok
- Dallas → Melbourne
- Dallas → Cape Town
- Dallas → Mumbai
- Dallas → Nairobi
- Dallas → Manila
More flights to Oceania
Flights to Sydney
Nearest origins
- Melbourne → Sydney
- Auckland → Sydney
- Bali (Denpasar) → Sydney
- Manila → Sydney
- Singapore → Sydney
- Kuala Lumpur → Sydney
- Taipei → Sydney
- Hong Kong → Sydney
- Bangkok → Sydney
- Osaka → Sydney
Long-haul to Sydney
- Lisbon → Sydney
- Casablanca → Sydney
- Madrid → Sydney
- Dublin → Sydney
- Barcelona → Sydney
- London → Sydney
- Manchester → Sydney
- Paris → Sydney
- Edinburgh → Sydney
- Brussels → Sydney