✈ MEL → YVR
16H 28M, 8,202 MILES. YOUR ANCESTORS WALKED LESS THAN THIS.
Flight from Melbourne to Vancouver
From Tullamarine (MEL), Australia Oceania → YVR (YVR), Canada North America
↔ Flying the other way? Vancouver → Melbourne
How long is the flight from Melbourne to Vancouver?
A nonstop flight from Melbourne (MEL) to Vancouver (YVR) takes about 16 hours 28 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 8,202 miles (13,200 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
16h 28m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
8,202 mi
13,200 km · great-circle
Avg speed
802 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Melbourne timezone
UTC+10
Australia/Melbourne
Vancouver timezone
UTC-7
America/Vancouver
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 Vancouver
Nearest origins
- Seattle → Vancouver
- San Francisco → Vancouver
- Las Vegas → Vancouver
- Los Angeles → Vancouver
- Dallas → Vancouver
- Chicago → Vancouver
- Toronto → Vancouver
- Atlanta → Vancouver
- New York → Vancouver
- Mexico City → Vancouver
Long-haul to Vancouver
- Cape Town → Vancouver
- Johannesburg → Vancouver
- Nairobi → Vancouver
- Bali (Denpasar) → Vancouver
- Kuala Lumpur → Vancouver
- Singapore → Vancouver
- Sydney → Vancouver
- Mumbai → Vancouver
- Abu Dhabi → Vancouver
- Bangkok → Vancouver