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Tullamarine

Tullamarine is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 km (8.7 mi) north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Brimbank, Hume and Merri-bek local government areas.

Tullamarine
Tullamarine · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Tullamarine is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 km (8.7 mi) north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Brimbank, Hume and Merri-bek local government areas. Tullamarine recorded a population of 6,733 at the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tullamarine

2 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
    Penola Catholic College

    Penola Catholic College is a co-educational secondary college, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Patron of the college is Saint Mary MacKillop.

    4 km · co-educational secondary college, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Keilor archaeological site

    The Keilor archaeological site was among the first places to demonstrate the antiquity of Aboriginal occupation of Australia when a cranium, unearthed in 1940, was found to be nearly 15,000 years old. Subsequent investigations of Pleistocene alluvial terraces revealed hearths about 31,000 years BP, making Keilor one of the earliest sites of human habitation in Australia.

    3.4 km · Australian archaeological site in Victoria · 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 Tullamarine

Airports
Melbourne (MEL), 5 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 52 km
Stations
Essendon Airport, 3.8 km · Glenroy, 3.7 km · Jacana, 3.6 km
  • Geelong/Melbourne → Tullamarine
    19 km · quickest by road, 47 min · A$3–3.5
  • Hobart (Cambridge) → Tullamarine
    613 km · quickest by air, 4h 3m · A$160–250
  • Adelaide → Tullamarine
    642 km · quickest by air, 4h 20m · A$170–270
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tullamarine

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 Tullamarine. 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

    655 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

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

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,593 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,070 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    4,198 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tullamarine

Tullamarine is 15 km from Melbourne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.