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Cranbourne

Cranbourne is a suburb in Melbourne,Victoria, Australia, 43 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Casey local government area.

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The place

Cranbourne is a suburb in Melbourne,Victoria, Australia, 43 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Casey local government area. Cranbourne recorded a population of 21,281 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Cranbourne

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 62 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 71 km
Stations
Merinda Park, 3.1 km · Cranbourne East railway station, 1.9 km
  • Melbourne → Cranbourne
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · A$6–8
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  • Geelong/Melbourne → Cranbourne
    39 km · quickest by road, 56 min · A$5–7
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  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Cranbourne
    558 km · quickest by air, 6h 43m · A$290–420
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cranbourne

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 Cranbourne. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextStony Point - Take the train to Stony Point, where ferries leave for French Island and Phillip Island.

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

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Next door to Cranbourne

Cranbourne is 43 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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