There are 6 ways to get from Sydney to Washington by plane, subway, train, or bus
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Fly to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
best- Fly from Sydney International Airport (SYD) to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)plane SYD - DCA
22h 19m$1,012–3,715Fly to Richmond International Airport, bus
cheapest- Fly from Sydney International Airport (SYD) to Richmond International Airport (RIC)plane SYD - RIC
- Take the bus from Richmond to Washington Union Stationbus
26h 14m$634–2,255Fly to Washington Dulles International Airport, subway
- Fly from Sydney International Airport (SYD) to Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD)plane SYD - IAD
- Take the subway from Washington Dulles International Airport, Silver Line Center Platform to Farragut West, Blue/Orange/Silver Line Track 1 Platformsubway
22h 51m$1,114–2,223Fly to Baltimore-Washington International Airport, train
- Fly from Sydney International Airport (SYD) to Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI)plane SYD - BWI
- Take the train from BWI Thurgood Marshall to Washington Union Stationtrain
23h$764–3,367Fly to Philadelphia International Airport, train
- Fly from Sydney International Airport (SYD) to Philadelphia International Airport (PHL)plane SYD - PHL
- Take the train from 30th Street Station to Washington Union Stationtrain
25h 15m$880–2,465Fly to Norfolk International Airport, train
- Fly from Sydney International Airport (SYD) to Norfolk International Airport (ORF)plane SYD - ORF
- Take the train from Norfolk to Alexandriatrain
27h 59m$666–2,538
Sydney International Airport (SYD) to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Sydney to Washington is to fly and subway which costs $1,100 - $2,300 and takes 22h 51m.
The fastest way to get from Sydney to Washington is to fly which takes 22h 19m and costs $1,000 - $3,800.
The distance between Sydney and Washington is 9830 miles.
It takes approximately 22h 19m to get from Sydney to Washington, including transfers.
Washington is 16h behind Sydney. It is currently 7:18 AM in Sydney and 3:18 PM in Washington.
There are 1651+ hotels available in Washington.
What companies run services between Sydney, NSW, Australia and Washington, DC, USA?
United Airlines, American Airlines, and three other airlines fly from Sydney International Airport (SYD) to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) every 4 hours.
- Website
- united.com
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport via Houston
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,000–3,700
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport via San Francisco
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,000–3,700
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport via Houston
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 24m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $600–2,100
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport via San Francisco
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 34m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $600–2,500
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport via Los Angeles
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $600–2,100
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Baltimore-Washington International Airport via Houston
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $500–1,900
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Baltimore-Washington International Airport via San Francisco
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $550–1,900
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Baltimore-Washington International Airport via Los Angeles
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 53m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $500–2,300
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Richmond International Airport via Houston
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $600–2,200
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Philadelphia International Airport via Houston
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 46m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $550–2,100
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Philadelphia International Airport via San Francisco
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 52m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $550–2,100
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Norfolk International Airport via Houston
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $600–2,200
- Website
- aa.com
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport via Los Angeles
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,000–3,700
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport via Dallas/Ft.Worth
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,300–4,500
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport via Dallas/Ft.Worth
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $750–2,500
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Baltimore-Washington International Airport via Dallas/Ft.Worth
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $650–2,300
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Richmond International Airport via Dallas/Ft.Worth
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $750–2,600
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Philadelphia International Airport via Dallas/Ft.Worth
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 1m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $700–2,500
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Philadelphia International Airport via Los Angeles
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $550–2,500
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Norfolk International Airport via Dallas/Ft.Worth
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 14m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $800–2,700
- Website
- qantas.com
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport via Dallas/Ft.Worth
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,300–4,500
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport via Dallas/Ft.Worth
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $750–2,500
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Baltimore-Washington International Airport via Dallas/Ft.Worth
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $650–2,300
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Richmond International Airport via Dallas/Ft.Worth
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $750–2,600
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Philadelphia International Airport via Dallas/Ft.Worth
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 1m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $700–2,500
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Philadelphia International Airport via Los Angeles
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 29m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $550–2,500
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Norfolk International Airport via Dallas/Ft.Worth
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 14m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $800–2,700
- Website
- aircanada.com
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport via Vancouver, Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,100–3,800
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Washington Dulles International Airport via Vancouver, Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $600–2,200
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Philadelphia International Airport via Vancouver, Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 46m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $600–2,100
- Website
- delta.com
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport via Los Angeles
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 53m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,000–3,700
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Norfolk International Airport via San Francisco, Atlanta
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 24m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $650–2,300
- Website
- flybreeze.com
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Richmond International Airport via San Francisco
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 44m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $600–2,200
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Richmond International Airport via Los Angeles
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 47m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $600–2,200
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Norfolk International Airport via Los Angeles
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 1m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $800–2,700
- Website
- southwest.com
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Baltimore-Washington International Airport via Los Angeles
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 55m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $500–1,900
- Website
- flyfrontier.com
Flights from Sydney International Airport to Baltimore-Washington International Airport via Dallas/Ft.Worth
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 45m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- $650–2,300
- Phone
- +1 202 466 3876
- Website
- wmata.com
Subway from Washington Dulles International Airport, Silver Line Center Platform to Farragut West, Blue/Orange/Silver Line Track 1 Platform
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- $2–8
- Website
- https://www.wmata.com
- standard fare after 9:30 p.m
- $2–3
- standard fare 5 a.m - 9:30 p.m.
- $5–8
- Phone
- +1 800-872-7245
- Website
- amtrak.com
Train from BWI Thurgood Marshall to Washington Union Station
- Ave. Duration
- 31 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $4–200
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home
- Schedules at
- https://www.amtrak.com/northeast-regional-train
- Coach
- $4–200
- Business Class
- $45–230
Train from 30th Street Station to Washington Union Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 58m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $18–250
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home
- Schedules at
- https://www.amtrak.com/northeast-regional-train
- Coach
- $18–250
- Business Class
- $70–300
Train from Norfolk to Alexandria
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 1m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- $29–290
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home
- Schedules at
- https://www.amtrak.com/northeast-regional-train
- Coach
- $29–290
- Business Class
- $90–350
- Phone
- +1 800-872-7245
- Website
- amtrak.com
Train from BWI Thurgood Marshall to Washington Union Station
- Ave. Duration
- 40 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $5–55
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
Train from 30th Street Station to Washington Union Station
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $20–230
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
- Phone
- 1-866-743-3682
- Website
- mta.maryland.gov
Train from BWI Thurgood Marshall to Washington Union Station
- Ave. Duration
- 40 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $2–9
- Website
- https://www.mta.maryland.gov
- Standard Fare
- $2–9
- Phone
- +1 800-872-7245
- Website
- amtrak.com
Train from BWI Thurgood Marshall to Washington Union Station
- Ave. Duration
- 24 min
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $6–550
- Schedules at
- https://www.amtrak.com/acela-train
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
- Business Class
- $6–440
- First Class
- $100–550
Train from 30th Street Station to Washington Union Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $30–650
- Schedules at
- https://www.amtrak.com/acela-train
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
- Business Class
- $30–470
- First Class
- $150–650
- Phone
- +1 (855) 626-8585
- Website
- flixbus.com
Bus from Richmond to Washington Union Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $22–35
- Schedules at
- flixbus.com
- Phone
- +1 214-849-8100
- ifsr@greyhound.com
- Website
- greyhound.com
Bus from Richmond to Washington Union Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $22–40
- Website
- https://www.greyhound.com/
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