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Suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia

South Yarra

South Yarra is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melbourne and Stonnington local government areas.

South Yarra
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The place

South Yarra is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melbourne and Stonnington local government areas. South Yarra recorded a population of 25,028 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to South Yarra

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 23 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 51 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → South Yarra
    2 km · quickest by road, 6 min · A$0–0.5
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → South Yarra
    595 km · quickest by air, 4h 52m · A$210–310
  • Adelaide → South Yarra
    657 km · quickest by air, 5h 9m · A$220–330
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for South Yarra

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 South Yarra. 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

    637 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,601 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,054 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,216 km

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Next door to South Yarra

South Yarra is 4 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.