✈ SYD → HEL
18H 51M FROM SYDNEY TO HELSINKI. THIS IS NOT TRAVEL. THIS IS ENDURANCE.
Flight from Sydney to Helsinki
From Kingsford Smith (SYD), Australia Oceania → Vantaa (HEL), Finland Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Helsinki → Sydney
How long is the flight from Sydney to Helsinki?
A nonstop flight from Sydney (SYD) to Helsinki (HEL) takes about 18 hours 51 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 9,445 miles (15,200 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
18h 51m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
9,445 mi
15,200 km · great-circle
Avg speed
807 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Sydney timezone
UTC+10
Australia/Sydney
Helsinki timezone
UTC+3
Europe/Helsinki
Time difference
-7h
7 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~4.9d
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 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
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Flights to Helsinki
Nearest origins
- Stockholm → Helsinki
- Oslo → Helsinki
- Copenhagen → Helsinki
- Warsaw → Helsinki
- Berlin → Helsinki
- Prague → Helsinki
- Vienna → Helsinki
- Budapest → Helsinki
- Amsterdam → Helsinki
- Frankfurt → Helsinki