#1
Best Places to Meet Halfway Between Los Angeles and Melbourne
Best overall match
Sydney, Australia
Best overall balance of travel time, flight price, weather, hotel cost and flight availability.
✈ Los Angeles 15h
✈ Melbourne 1h 20m
From €902 combined
The Best Meeting Point for Los Angeles and Melbourne: Sydney, Australia
7 destinations can be reached directly from both Los Angeles and Melbourne on the same outbound and return dates. Sydney, Australia is our best overall match, while Sydney, Australia has the shortest travel time, Sydney, Australia has the cheapest flights, Santiago, Chile has the best weather, Manila, Philippines has the lowest hotel costs, and San Francisco, United States offers the most matching flight options . You can also search all 7 matching destinations with our destination finder .
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Shortest travel time
Sydney, Australia
15h from Los Angeles · 1h 20m from
Melbourne
Cheapest flights
Sydney, Australia
From €902 combined
Best weather
Santiago, Chile
22°C
Cheapest hotels
Manila, Philippines
€19/night
Most flight options
San Francisco, United States
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San Francisco, United States
#3
Dallas, United States
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#4
Santiago, Chile
#5
Tokyo, Japan
#6
Manila, Philippines
#7
Singapore, Singapore
Frequently Asked Questions
Why direct flights from both cities instead of a geographic midpoint?
A map midpoint between Los Angeles and Melbourne is usually a town neither of you can reach easily. We instead show real destinations both cities fly to directly, which is normally faster and cheaper than meeting at the literal halfway point.
Where can someone from Los Angeles and someone from Melbourne meet halfway?
Any destination on this page works as a meet-in-the-middle point: both Los Angeles and Melbourne have a direct flight to it, so you arrive in the same place without changing planes. Open the finder to see every shared date, sorted by weather and combined flight cost.
How are the destinations ranked?
Each shared destination is scored on the weather forecast across the trip and the combined flight value from both cities. The finder lets you re-rank and filter by budget, trip length and travel dates.
We live in different countries. Where should we meet between Los Angeles and Melbourne?
Every option here is reachable on a direct flight from both Los Angeles and Melbourne, including international routes, so a cross-border meet-up needs no connections on either side.
Can we search from Melbourne and Los Angeles instead?
The order does not matter. Los Angeles to Melbourne and Melbourne to Los Angeles produce the same destinations, since a direct route works both ways.