Singapore to Darwin

486 months of data from Jan 1985 · Darwin to Singapore

Traffic: 12 months to May 2026

62,616 passengers flew Singapore to Darwin in the 12 months to May 2026, out of 125,927 on the route in both directions. Flights run about 72% full, much the same in both directions. This route has been reported for 41 years.

The route

Distances are true from Darwin; the ring marks the distance to Singapore.

How long is the flight?

Scheduled flight time from Singapore to Darwin is 4h 55m gate to gate, over 3,338 km. The return leg is scheduled at much the same, 4h 50m.

Scheduled block time — gate to gate, not time in the air — taken from the current timetable for this leg. Long-haul flights are often timetabled differently in each direction because of winds aloft, so the return is not always the same length. Check your own booking for the flight you are taking.

Flight numbers on this route

3 flight numbers currently scheduled from Singapore to Darwin. These are the numbers you book under.

Not a daily service — this week it is scheduled on Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat and Sun (10 departures).

Singapore · 2 · Boeing 737

SQ251 · SQ253

Qantas · 1 · Boeing 737-800

QF48

Current timetable as at 2026-09-06

Timetables change, and these carry no punctuality figures of their own — no on-time data is published for international flights at all. The passenger and load factor figures above cover the route, not any single flight number.

Passengers, 1985 to 2026

To May 2026 · Marks show industry events

How full were the flights?

Inbound load factor, read as a floor rather than an exact figure. Some flights on this pair also carried passengers to and from other cities, and their seats cannot be split between those journeys. Dividing by every seat on every aircraft that touched the route gives the lowest the true figure can be, so actual occupancy is at or above the line. Seat data begins in 2009, so this series is shorter than the passenger chart above.

Load factor: seats data from 2009

When is this route busiest?

Average passengers by calendar month over the last ten years, relative to the annual average.

Freight

Tonnes of air freight carried on this route — a dimension the domestic data does not have at all.

To May 2026

The route in numbers

No punctuality data is published for international services, so there are no cancellation or on-time figures on this page. That series covers domestic routes only.

Related routes

From Darwin

• Darwin ↔ Denpasar
• Darwin ↔ Dili
• Darwin ↔ Kuala Lumpur
• Darwin ↔ London
• Darwin ↔ Manila

To Singapore

• Sydney ↔ Singapore
• Melbourne ↔ Singapore
• Perth ↔ Singapore
• Brisbane ↔ Singapore

Airport data

• Darwin Airport