Route brief · SYD → LIS
Sydney → Lisbon
$1,529
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Jan 11 '27 – Jan 24 '27 · 13 nights
Air China2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefLISLisbonTiled hills, custard tarts, Atlantic light — TAP’s hub wars keep this Europe’s cheapest gateway.Best windowMar–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsHumberto Delgado (LIS)All routes into LisbonWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Lisbon: Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 25 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,529 for 18,177 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. For context, the middle fare among the 33 routes of similar length we watch out of Sydney is $1,304. We have 1 month 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 one day we hold a cached fare for
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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
- Kingsford Smith (SYD) ↔ Humberto Delgado (LIS)
- Flight time
- ~25 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~18,177 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct
SYD → LIS, answered.
How far in advance should I book SYD → Lisbon?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Sydney to Lisbon?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air China. 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 August 20). 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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