✈ MEL → GIG
16H 31M FROM MELBOURNE TO RIO DE JANEIRO. THIS IS NOT TRAVEL. THIS IS ENDURANCE.
Flight from Melbourne to Rio de Janeiro
From Tullamarine (MEL), Australia Oceania → Galeão (GIG), Brazil South America
↔ Flying the other way? Rio de Janeiro → Melbourne
How long is the flight from Melbourne to Rio de Janeiro?
A nonstop flight from Melbourne (MEL) to Rio de Janeiro (GIG) takes about 16 hours 31 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 8,225 miles (13,237 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
16h 31m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
8,225 mi
13,237 km · great-circle
Avg speed
802 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Melbourne timezone
UTC+10
Australia/Melbourne
Rio de Janeiro timezone
UTC-3
America/Sao_Paulo
Time difference
-13h
13 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~9.1d
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
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Flights to Rio de Janeiro
Nearest origins
- São Paulo → Rio de Janeiro
- Buenos Aires → Rio de Janeiro
- Santiago → Rio de Janeiro
- Cape Town → Rio de Janeiro
- Miami → Rio de Janeiro
- Cancun → Rio de Janeiro
- Johannesburg → Rio de Janeiro
- Casablanca → Rio de Janeiro
- Atlanta → Rio de Janeiro
- Mexico City → Rio de Janeiro
Long-haul to Rio de Janeiro
- Osaka → Rio de Janeiro
- Tokyo → Rio de Janeiro
- Taipei → Rio de Janeiro
- Shanghai → Rio de Janeiro
- Manila → Rio de Janeiro
- Seoul → Rio de Janeiro
- Hong Kong → Rio de Janeiro
- Beijing → Rio de Janeiro
- Bangkok → Rio de Janeiro
- Bali (Denpasar) → Rio de Janeiro