✈ SYD → DFW
17H 11M FLIGHT. YOU WILL FORGET WHAT GRASS LOOKS LIKE.
Flight from Sydney to Dallas
From Kingsford Smith (SYD), Australia Oceania → Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), USA North America
↔ Flying the other way? Dallas → Sydney
How long is the flight from Sydney to Dallas?
A nonstop flight from Sydney (SYD) to Dallas (DFW) takes about 17 hours 11 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 8,580 miles (13,808 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
17h 11m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
8,580 mi
13,808 km · great-circle
Avg speed
803 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Sydney timezone
UTC+10
Australia/Sydney
Dallas 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 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 → Brussels
More flights to North America
Flights to Dallas
Nearest origins
- Atlanta → Dallas
- Chicago → Dallas
- Mexico City → Dallas
- Cancun → Dallas
- Las Vegas → Dallas
- Miami → Dallas
- Toronto → Dallas
- Los Angeles → Dallas
- New York → Dallas
- San Francisco → Dallas
Long-haul to Dallas
- Bali (Denpasar) → Dallas
- Singapore → Dallas
- Kuala Lumpur → Dallas
- Johannesburg → Dallas
- Bangkok → Dallas
- Melbourne → Dallas
- Cape Town → Dallas
- Mumbai → Dallas
- Nairobi → Dallas
- Manila → Dallas