✈ SYD → BRU
20H 41M FROM SYDNEY TO BRUSSELS. THIS IS NOT TRAVEL. THIS IS ENDURANCE.
Flight from Sydney to Brussels
From Kingsford Smith (SYD), Australia Oceania → Zaventem (BRU), Belgium Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Brussels → Sydney
How long is the flight from Sydney to Brussels?
A nonstop flight from Sydney (SYD) to Brussels (BRU) takes about 20 hours 41 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 10,400 miles (16,737 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
20h 41m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
10,400 mi
16,737 km · great-circle
Avg speed
810 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Sydney timezone
UTC+10
Australia/Sydney
Brussels timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Brussels
Time difference
-8h
8 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~5.6d
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 Sydney
Nearest destinations
- Sydney → Melbourne
- Sydney → Auckland
- Sydney → Bali (Denpasar)
- Sydney → Manila
- Sydney → Singapore
- Sydney → Kuala Lumpur
- Sydney → Taipei
- Sydney → Hong Kong
- Sydney → Bangkok
- Sydney → Osaka
Long-haul from Sydney
- Sydney → Lisbon
- Sydney → Casablanca
- Sydney → Madrid
- Sydney → Dublin
- Sydney → Barcelona
- Sydney → London
- Sydney → Manchester
- Sydney → Paris
- Sydney → Edinburgh
- Sydney → Amsterdam
More flights to Europe
Flights to Brussels
Nearest origins
- Amsterdam → Brussels
- Paris → Brussels
- Frankfurt → Brussels
- London → Brussels
- Zurich → Brussels
- Manchester → Brussels
- Munich → Brussels
- Berlin → Brussels
- Milan → Brussels
- Prague → Brussels