Airport

Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport SYD

Sydney, Australia · Large airport · ICAO YSSY

Australia's busiest airport, with a curfew between 23:00 and 06:00 that shapes long-haul schedules across the Pacific and to Europe. Its international and domestic terminals are on opposite sides of the runways, connected by train or bus.

Reference data

IATA: SYD
ICAO: YSSY
Elevation: 21 ft
Coordinates: -33.9461, 151.1770

Local time at SYD

06:35 GMT+11

Sun, 4 Oct 2026 · UTC+11:00 · Australia/Sydney

Offsets shift with daylight saving. The time zone planner resolves them for a specific travel date rather than today.

Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport at -33.95, 151.18.

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Routes covered from SYD

Distances and time-zone comparisons for airport pairs involving SYD. These are reference pages about the geography of a route — not schedules, and not a claim that any airline flies it.

LAX → SYD

Los Angeles to Sydney
12,051 km · about 14h 56m flying

via Los Angeles

SIN → SYD

Singapore to Sydney
6,288 km · about 8h 04m flying

via Singapore

SYD → AKL

Sydney to Auckland
2,164 km · about 3h 09m flying

via Auckland

Staying near SYD

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Nearby airports

Ranked by actual distance from SYD'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
LBH	Palm Beach Seaplane Base	Sydney	42 km	Look up
NTL	Newcastle Airport	Williamtown	142 km	Look up
BHS	Bathurst Airport	Bathurst	153 km	Look up
CBR	Canberra Airport	Canberra	236 km	Look up
MYA	Moruya Airport	Moruya	237 km	Look up
PKE	Parkes Airport	Parkes	287 km	Look up

Airlines based here

Carriers in this site's directory that treat SYD as a hub. This is not a list of every airline serving the airport.

Qantas QF

Primary hub · Australia

Verify anything that matters

Terminals, transfer times and facilities change, and this page does not track them. For operational detail, go to the airport itself.

Official SYD website Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport on Wikipedia

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.

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