✈ SYD → EDI
20H 51M FROM SYDNEY TO EDINBURGH. THIS IS NOT TRAVEL. THIS IS ENDURANCE.
Flight from Sydney to Edinburgh
From Kingsford Smith (SYD), Australia Oceania → Edinburgh Airport (EDI), United Kingdom Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Edinburgh → Sydney
How long is the flight from Sydney to Edinburgh?
A nonstop flight from Sydney (SYD) to Edinburgh (EDI) takes about 20 hours 51 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 10,494 miles (16,889 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
20h 51m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
10,494 mi
16,889 km · great-circle
Avg speed
810 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Sydney timezone
UTC+10
Australia/Sydney
Edinburgh timezone
UTC+1
Europe/London
Time difference
-9h
9 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~6.3d
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 → Brussels
- Sydney → Amsterdam
More flights to Europe
Flights to Edinburgh
Nearest origins
- Manchester → Edinburgh
- Dublin → Edinburgh
- London → Edinburgh
- Amsterdam → Edinburgh
- Brussels → Edinburgh
- Paris → Edinburgh
- Oslo → Edinburgh
- Copenhagen → Edinburgh
- Frankfurt → Edinburgh
- Berlin → Edinburgh