✈ MEL → SFO
15H 49M, 7,862 MILES. YOUR ANCESTORS WALKED LESS THAN THIS.
Flight from Melbourne to San Francisco
From Tullamarine (MEL), Australia Oceania → SFO (SFO), USA North America
↔ Flying the other way? San Francisco → Melbourne
How long is the flight from Melbourne to San Francisco?
A nonstop flight from Melbourne (MEL) to San Francisco (SFO) takes about 15 hours 49 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 7,862 miles (12,653 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
15h 49m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
7,862 mi
12,653 km · great-circle
Avg speed
800 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Melbourne timezone
UTC+10
Australia/Melbourne
San Francisco timezone
UTC-7
America/Los_Angeles
Time difference
-17h
17 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~11.9d
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 San Francisco
Nearest origins
- Los Angeles → San Francisco
- Las Vegas → San Francisco
- Seattle → San Francisco
- Vancouver → San Francisco
- Dallas → San Francisco
- Chicago → San Francisco
- Mexico City → San Francisco
- Atlanta → San Francisco
- Toronto → San Francisco
- Cancun → San Francisco
Long-haul to San Francisco
- Johannesburg → San Francisco
- Cape Town → San Francisco
- Nairobi → San Francisco
- Kuala Lumpur → San Francisco
- Singapore → San Francisco
- Mumbai → San Francisco
- Bali (Denpasar) → San Francisco
- Abu Dhabi → San Francisco
- Dubai → San Francisco
- Doha → San Francisco