Where is Cairns - Plan your Cairns holiday

Latitude: 16.91959°N, Latitude 145.7781° E

Where is Cairns?

Where is Cairns? Located in Tropical North Queensland, Australia in the Pacific Ocean?

Sydney to Cairns is 2419 km

Brisbane to Cairns is 1702 km

Time in Cairns operates in Australian Eastern Standard time UTC+10.

East, we have the World Heritage Great Barrier Reef.
West is the Atherton Tablelands, Chillegoe Caves.
South is Mission Beach and the Whitsunday Islands.
North of Cairns is Port Douglas, World Heritage Daintree Rainforest and further north Cape York.

The city of Cairns is about 5 kilometres square; the town is flat and very easy to walk around, be sure that you take drinking water with you as our climate is always warm to hot.

Elevation between 0 and 1,314 metres with a population of approximately 150,000

It is covering an area of the 488.1-kilometre square—the 5th most populated city in Australia.

Cairns is located in Tropical North Queensland Australia approximately 1700 kilometres (1057 miles) north of Brisbane, 2420 kilometres (1504 miles) north of Sydney.

A wonderful tropical city that provides the perfect gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest

How to get to Cairns?

Flights to Cairns

Fly from Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane Adelaide, Darwin and Perth

Qantas Virgin Virgin Tiger

International flights from Tokyo, Osaka and Bali operated by Jetstar

Fly to Singapore with Silk Airlines.

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea operated by Air Niugini and Qantas Airlines.

New Zealand operated by Air New Zealand

Shenzen in China operated by Hainan Airlines.

Travel by Train

Cairns is the final station of Queensland North Coast Railway line which follows the Eastern Seaboard from Brisbane including the high-speed train ‘The Tilt Train.’