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waypoints / 🇦🇺 AU / Darwin – Nhulunbuy Timings are not live · Documented
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Darwin to Nhulunbuy

1 operator run this water, from 1 h 18.

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.

Airnorth, Emirates DRW → GOV 646 km non-stop 717 EM2 in the air 2 h 48 est. rate not held 494 km/h average

Other ways to reach Nhulunbuy

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

Groote Eylandt – Nhulunbuy 45 min Airnorth
Cairns – Nhulunbuy 1 h 52 Emirates

And other ways to reach Darwin

Maningrida – Darwin 58 min Airnorth
Kununurra – Darwin 1 h 03 Airnorth
Groote Eylandt – Darwin 1 h 17 Aero-Service
Dili – Darwin 1 h 24 Airnorth
McArthur River Mine – Darwin 1 h 24 Airnorth
Alice Springs – Darwin 2 h 08 Emirates
Cairns – Darwin 2 h 36 Jetstar Airways, Ponant Cruises
Kuta, Badung – Darwin 2 h 42 Indonesia AirAsia
Townsville – Darwin 2 h 50 Airnorth
Adelaide – Darwin 3 h 47 Jetstar Airways

Where else these quays go

Also from Darwin

Adelaide · Alice Springs · Benoa · Brisbane · Broome WA · Cairns · Dili · Fremantle · Groote Eylandt · Keelung · Kununurra · Kuta, Badung · Lautoka · Manila

Also from Nhulunbuy

Cairns · Groote Eylandt

Which months this runs

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

Our records for the Darwin–Nhulunbuy 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.