Airport
Melbourne Airport MEL
Melbourne, Australia · Large airport · ICAO YMML
Unusually for a major Australian airport, Melbourne has no curfew, which is why some long-haul and freight operations favour it. Four terminals sit in one complex, so connections are generally straightforward.
Reference data
- IATA
- MEL
- ICAO
- YMML
- Elevation
- 434 ft
- Coordinates
- -37.6707, 144.8379
Local time at MEL
06:35 GMT+11
Sun, 4 Oct 2026 · UTC+11:00 · Australia/Melbourne
Offsets shift with daylight saving. The time zone planner resolves them for a specific travel date rather than today.
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Staying near MEL
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Nearby airports
Ranked by actual distance from MEL's coordinates, not by name or region. Useful when a fare or a schedule makes a neighbouring airport worth the ground transfer.
| IATA | Airport | City | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEB | Melbourne Essendon Airport | Essendon Fields | 9 km | Look up |
| MBW | Melbourne Moorabbin Airport | Melbourne | 41 km | Look up |
| AVV | Melbourne Avalon International Airport | Geelong/Melbourne | 52 km | Look up |
| MHU | Mount Hotham Airport | Mount Hotham | 231 km | Look up |
| KNS | King Island Airport | King Island Airport | 259 km | Look up |
| ABX | Albury Airport | East Albury | 260 km | Look up |
Airlines based here
Carriers in this site's directory that treat MEL as a hub. This is not a list of every airline serving the airport.
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Terminals, transfer times and facilities change, and this page does not track them. For operational detail, go to the airport itself.
Where this data comes from
Codes, coordinates and elevation come from the public-domain OurAirports dataset, pinned at build time — 4,133 airports, last refreshed 6 September 2026. The time zone is derived from the coordinates above.