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Balwyn

Balwyn is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km (6.2 mi) east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Boroondara local government area.

Balwyn
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The place

Balwyn is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km (6.2 mi) east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Boroondara local government area. Balwyn recorded a population of 13,495 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Balwyn

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 26 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 60 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Balwyn
    7 km · quickest by road, 24 min · A$1–1.5
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Balwyn
    596 km · quickest by air, 5h 1m · A$220–320
  • Adelaide → Balwyn
    663 km · quickest by air, 5h 18m · A$230–340
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Balwyn

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Balwyn. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextMelbourne is fairly centrally located on the coast of Victoria, and there are many natural and man-made attractions that make for a nice day trip.

From Wikivoyage: Melbourne, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    638 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    734 km
  3. 03
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,594 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,049 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,218 km

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Around it

Next door to Balwyn

Balwyn is 10 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.