Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Melbourne to Birmingham. From €598.40, fastest 12h 34m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Melbourne to Birmingham costs €598.40 at the cheapest and takes 12h 34m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 7,033 km. Cheapest is by flight, fastest is by flight.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on September 29, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 12h 52m | 9h 42m | 3h 10m | €686.31 | 1040.9 kg | 5 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Manchester, with 68 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 13h 25mCO2 1039.0 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 12h 52mCO2 1040.9 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Changes at Glasgow, with 74 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 15h 18mCO2 1023.2 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of traveling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Melbourne to Birmingham | SunSep 13 | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 | WedSep 23 | ThuSep 24 | FriSep 25 | SatSep 26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | €1,271.00 | €1,137.66 | €990.75 | €980.13 | €1,250.35 | €1,121.14 | €963.02 | €994.29 | €814.34 | €686.31 | €718.17 | €874.52 | €827.32 | €909.33 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-29 · €598.40
Birmingham is big enough that where you sleep decides what the days look like. We sell the seat, not the room.
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
The fare from BHX into Birmingham is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
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Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Thomsonfly | €660.35 | 12h 34m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €499.50 | 83% |
| Taxes | €89.91 | 15% |
| Supplier fees | €7.00 | 1% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 0% |
| Total you pay | €598.40 | 100% |
A day in Birmingham hauling a suitcase is a shorter day than it needs to be. We do not store bags.
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The fastest journey from Melbourne to Birmingham takes 12h 34m door to door, of which 9h 42m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 13h 8m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Melbourne to Birmingham is €598.40, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €912.87. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Melbourne to Birmingham is by flight, at €686.31 for one passenger on September 29, 2026. That journey takes 12h 52m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
Fares from Melbourne to Birmingham bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €457.98. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 178 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Melbourne to Birmingham, at €686.31. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 12, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Melbourne to Birmingham, at €428.48 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
1 operators sell services from Melbourne to Birmingham across 1 mode: Thomsonfly. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
20 percent of the services we sell from Melbourne to Birmingham are direct. The rest connect at Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle upon Tyne, London, with about 68 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Melbourne to Birmingham by flight leave from Melbourne MLB and arrive at Birmingham BHX. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
0 of the 1 operators we sell from Melbourne to Birmingham allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.
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Being on the water gives Birmingham a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Timed entry, guided walks and half-day trips out of Birmingham, with free cancellation on most of it.
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