✈ MEL → ORD
MELBOURNE → CHICAGO: 19H 16M. BUSINESS CLASS OR THERAPY. PICK ONE.
Flight from Melbourne to Chicago
From Tullamarine (MEL), Australia Oceania → O'Hare (ORD), USA North America
↔ Flying the other way? Chicago → Melbourne
How long is the flight from Melbourne to Chicago?
A nonstop flight from Melbourne (MEL) to Chicago (ORD) takes about 19 hours 16 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 9,666 miles (15,556 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
19h 16m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
9,666 mi
15,556 km · great-circle
Avg speed
807 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Melbourne timezone
UTC+10
Australia/Melbourne
Chicago timezone
UTC-5
America/Chicago
Time difference
-15h
15 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~10.5d
Westward — easier
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 Melbourne
Nearest destinations
- Melbourne → Sydney
- Melbourne → Auckland
- Melbourne → Bali (Denpasar)
- Melbourne → Singapore
- Melbourne → Manila
- Melbourne → Kuala Lumpur
- Melbourne → Bangkok
- Melbourne → Taipei
- Melbourne → Hong Kong
- Melbourne → Shanghai
Long-haul from Melbourne
- Melbourne → Lisbon
- Melbourne → Casablanca
- Melbourne → Madrid
- Melbourne → Dublin
- Melbourne → Manchester
- Melbourne → Boston
- Melbourne → London
- Melbourne → Edinburgh
- Melbourne → Barcelona
- Melbourne → Paris
More flights to North America
Flights to Chicago
Nearest origins
- Toronto → Chicago
- Atlanta → Chicago
- New York → Chicago
- Dallas → Chicago
- Boston → Chicago
- Miami → Chicago
- Cancun → Chicago
- Las Vegas → Chicago
- Mexico City → Chicago
- Seattle → Chicago