✈ LAX → MEL
LOS ANGELES → MELBOURNE: 15H 56M. BUSINESS CLASS OR THERAPY. PICK ONE.
Flight from Los Angeles to Melbourne
From LAX (LAX), USA North America → Tullamarine (MEL), Australia Oceania
↔ Flying the other way? Melbourne → Los Angeles
How long is the flight from Los Angeles to Melbourne?
A nonstop flight from Los Angeles (LAX) to Melbourne (MEL) takes about 15 hours 56 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 7,927 miles (12,758 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
15h 56m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
7,927 mi
12,758 km · great-circle
Avg speed
800 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Los Angeles timezone
UTC-7
America/Los_Angeles
Melbourne timezone
UTC+10
Australia/Melbourne
Time difference
+17h
17 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~17d
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 Los Angeles
Nearest destinations
- Los Angeles → Las Vegas
- Los Angeles → San Francisco
- Los Angeles → Seattle
- Los Angeles → Vancouver
- Los Angeles → Dallas
- Los Angeles → Mexico City
- Los Angeles → Chicago
- Los Angeles → Atlanta
- Los Angeles → Cancun
- Los Angeles → Toronto
Long-haul from Los Angeles
- Los Angeles → Johannesburg
- Los Angeles → Cape Town
- Los Angeles → Nairobi
- Los Angeles → Kuala Lumpur
- Los Angeles → Singapore
- Los Angeles → Mumbai
- Los Angeles → Bali (Denpasar)
- Los Angeles → Abu Dhabi
- Los Angeles → Dubai
- Los Angeles → Doha
More flights to Oceania
Flights to Melbourne
Nearest origins
- Sydney → Melbourne
- Auckland → Melbourne
- Bali (Denpasar) → Melbourne
- Singapore → Melbourne
- Manila → Melbourne
- Kuala Lumpur → Melbourne
- Bangkok → Melbourne
- Taipei → Melbourne
- Hong Kong → Melbourne
- Shanghai → Melbourne
Long-haul to Melbourne
- Lisbon → Melbourne
- Casablanca → Melbourne
- Madrid → Melbourne
- Dublin → Melbourne
- Manchester → Melbourne
- Boston → Melbourne
- London → Melbourne
- Edinburgh → Melbourne
- Barcelona → Melbourne
- Paris → Melbourne