Route brief · ROM → SYD
Rome → Sydney
$1,229
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 16 – Sep 24 · 8 nights
Ryanair4 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSYDSydneyHarbour sails, cliff walks and flat whites that ruin you for coffee anywhere else.Best windowOct–Nov · Mar–AprAirportsKingsford Smith (SYD)All routes into SydneyWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Sydney: Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 4 stops and takes about 29 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Ryanair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,229 for 16,321 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 30 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Sydney, this fare ranks 22nd — 48% above the $833 from Stockholm. We have 2 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 19% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $900 then versus $1,067 now, across 8 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $854, on Oct 29.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA) ↔ Kingsford Smith (SYD)
- Flight time
- ~29 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~16,321 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Nov · Mar–Apr
ROM → SYD, answered.
How far in advance should I book ROM → Sydney?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Rome to Sydney?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ryanair. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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