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Cairns to Mount Isa

1 operator run this water, from 1 h 29.

Getting from Cairns to Mount Isa

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Every way across

One row per operator and speed. Where a service is sold as fast and its average does not clear 45 km/h, the word appears in quotation marks — the boat is fast craft, the crossing is not.

Aero Condor Peru CNS → ISA 782 km non-stop DH1 in the air 2 h 59 est. rate not held 529 km/h average

Other ways to reach Mount Isa

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Mount Isa without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

Cloncurry – Mount Isa 38 min Qantas

Julia Creek – Mount Isa 47 min Regional Express

Boulia – Mount Isa 49 min Aero Condor Peru

Doomadgee – Mount Isa 53 min Aero Condor Peru

Townsville – Mount Isa 1 h 28 Qantas

Brisbane – Mount Isa 2 h 28 Qantas

And other ways to reach Cairns

Townsville – Cairns 51 min Qantas

Coen – Cairns 1 h 04 Aero Condor Peru

Kowanyama – Cairns 1 h 04 Aero Condor Peru

Pormpuraaw – Cairns 1 h 07 Aero Condor Peru

Normanton – Cairns 1 h 08 Aero Condor Peru

Lockhart River – Cairns 1 h 09 Aero Condor Peru

Aurukun – Cairns 1 h 14 Aero Condor Peru

Weipa – Cairns 1 h 17 Aero Condor Peru

Bamaga – Cairns 1 h 26 Aero Condor Peru

Horn – Cairns 1 h 30 Qantas

Where else these quays go

Also from Cairns

Adelaide · Alice Springs · Auckland · Aurukun · Bamaga · Benoa · Brisbane · Coen · Darwin · Dunedin · Fitzroy Island · Gold Coast · Green Island · Horn

Also from Mount Isa

Boulia · Brisbane · Cloncurry · Doomadgee · Julia Creek · Townsville

Which months this runs

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for the Cairns–Mount Isa crossing were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.

What we do not know

No fares. Not for this crossing, not for any crossing, not for any mode.

No departure times. No rate is held for this pair either, so we cannot say how often it runs.