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Suburb of Darwin, the Northern Territory, Australia

Nightcliff

Nightcliff is a northern suburb of the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

Nightcliff
Nightcliff · Dietmar Rabich
The place

Nightcliff is a northern suburb of the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. It is the traditional country and waterways of the Larrakia people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nightcliff

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Charles Darwin University

    Charles Darwin University is an Australian public university with two campuses in Darwin and six satellite campuses in metropolitan and regional areas of the Northern Territory and New South Wales. It was established in 2003 after the merger of Northern Territory University, the Menzies School of Health Research, and Centralian College.

    3.9 km · public university in the Northern Territory, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Darwin Football Stadium

    Darwin Football Stadium is a sports stadium in Darwin, Australia in the Marrara Sporting Complex, and is located adjacent to the TIO Stadium. Work began on the stadium in 2007 and was officially opened on 28 July 2007 when it played host to an A-League Pre-Season Cup game between Perth Glory and Melbourne Victory.

    3.8 km · sports stadium in Darwin, Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Casuarina Square

    Casuarina Square is a shopping centre located in Casuarina, a suburb of Darwin, Australia. It is the largest shopping centre in the Northern Territory.

    3.7 km · shopping mall in Northern Territory, Australia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Charles Darwin University Nursing Museum

    The Charles Darwin University Nursing Museum preserves and promotes nursing heritage in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is located at Charles Darwin University in Darwin.

    2.4 km · museum in Northern Territory, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Nightcliff

Airports
Darwin / RAAF Darwin (DRW), 5 km
Stations
Casuarina Bus Interchange, 3.6 km
  • Broome → Nightcliff
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Dili → Nightcliff
    717 km · quickest by air, 5h 12m · $230–360
  • Oecussi-Ambeno → Nightcliff
    796 km · quickest by air, 6h 2m · $270–420
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Nightcliff

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAlliance Airlines and Arafura Aviation offer limited charter services.
  • Go nextIt provides a base for day trips to explore the 'Top End' of the Territory.

From Wikivoyage: Darwin, 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
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,120 km
  2. 02
    Togian IslandsID

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,657 km
  3. 03
    Gili IslandsID

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    1,678 km
  4. 04
    Nusa PenidaID

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    1,722 km
  5. 05
    SiquijorPH

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    2,529 km

If you know how people move in Nightcliff – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Nightcliff

  • Alawasuburb of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia2.6 km
  • Casuarinasuburb of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia3.7 km
  • East Pointsuburb of Darwin, Northern Territory4 km
  • Marrarasuburb of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia3.8 km
  • Nakarasuburb of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia3.5 km
  • Brinkinsuburb of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia2.4 km