✈ YVR → MEL
16H 28M IN ECONOMY = A FELONY AGAINST YOURSELF. UPGRADE.
Flight from Vancouver to Melbourne
From YVR (YVR), Canada North America → Tullamarine (MEL), Australia Oceania
↔ Flying the other way? Melbourne → Vancouver
How long is the flight from Vancouver to Melbourne?
A nonstop flight from Vancouver (YVR) to Melbourne (MEL) 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
Vancouver timezone
UTC-7
America/Vancouver
Melbourne timezone
UTC+10
Australia/Melbourne
Time difference
+17h
17 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~17d
Eastward — worse
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 Vancouver
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- Vancouver → Seattle
- Vancouver → San Francisco
- Vancouver → Las Vegas
- Vancouver → Los Angeles
- Vancouver → Dallas
- Vancouver → Chicago
- Vancouver → Toronto
- Vancouver → Atlanta
- Vancouver → New York
- Vancouver → Mexico City
Long-haul from Vancouver
- Vancouver → Cape Town
- Vancouver → Johannesburg
- Vancouver → Nairobi
- Vancouver → Bali (Denpasar)
- Vancouver → Kuala Lumpur
- Vancouver → Singapore
- Vancouver → Sydney
- Vancouver → Mumbai
- Vancouver → Abu Dhabi
- Vancouver → Bangkok
More flights to Oceania
Flights to Melbourne
Nearest origins
- Sydney → Melbourne
- Auckland → Melbourne
- Bali (Denpasar) → Melbourne
- Singapore → Melbourne
- Manila → Melbourne
- Kuala Lumpur → Melbourne
- Bangkok → Melbourne
- Taipei → Melbourne
- Hong Kong → Melbourne
- Shanghai → Melbourne
Long-haul to Melbourne
- Lisbon → Melbourne
- Casablanca → Melbourne
- Madrid → Melbourne
- Dublin → Melbourne
- Manchester → Melbourne
- Boston → Melbourne
- London → Melbourne
- Edinburgh → Melbourne
- Barcelona → Melbourne
- Paris → Melbourne