Sunshine West
Sunshine West is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km (8.1 mi) west of Melbourne's central business district, located within the City of Brimbank local government area.
Sunshine West is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km (8.1 mi) west of Melbourne's central business district, located within the City of Brimbank local government area. Sunshine West recorded a population of 18,552 at the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Sunshine West
3 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.
- 01Sunshine Mosque
The Sunshine Mosque is an Ottoman/Turkish-style mosque located in Sunshine, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The mosque contains 17 domes, a minaret, and a courtyard.
2.9 km · mosque in Australia · Wikipedia - 02Altona Memorial Park
Altona Memorial Park is a cemetery and crematorium serving the western suburbs of Melbourne. The park opened in January 1961, and is currently operated by Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust.
3.8 km · cemetery in Melbourne, Australia · Wikipedia - 03H.V. McKay Memorial Gardens
The H. V. McKay Memorial Gardens, originally known as the Sunshine Gardens, is an urban industrial garden and its adjacent church building and manse, that serve as memorials to Hugh Victor McKay, who founded the gardens and church, co-located at 118–122 Anderson Road in Sunshine, in the City of Brimbank, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1909 – on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people – by Australian industrialist, H. V. McKay located near the Sunshine Harvester operations for his eponymous firm, the gardens became a place of relaxation for workers in what became a company town.
1.6 km · Heritage-listed public industrial garden and church in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Sunshine West
- Airports
- Melbourne (MEL), 14 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 41 km
- Stations
- Ginifer, 3.9 km · White City railway station, 3.5 km
- Geelong/Melbourne → Sunshine West18 km · quickest by road, 44 min · A$3–4
- Hobart (Cambridge) → Sunshine West606 km · quickest by air, 4h 26m · A$180–280
- Adelaide → Sunshine West641 km · quickest by air, 4h 43m · A$200–300
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Sunshine West
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 Sunshine West. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe route from Port Melbourne is slightly more convoluted and includes a ferry (see below for more details).
From Wikivoyage: Melbourne/Western suburbs, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Sunshine West
Sunshine West is 13 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Braybrooksuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3.7 km
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- Brooklynsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3 km
- Sunshinesuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2.1 km
- Sunshine Northsuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia3 km
- Ardeersuburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia1.7 km