VIC · Melbourne
Melbourne Airport → St Kilda taxi fare
Catch a metered cab from Melbourne Airport to St Kilda and you’re looking at between A$88.08 and A$101.99 on the day rate, with A$92.72 a fair midpoint. The drive is 34.1 km — about 41 minutes when traffic cooperates.
Estimated fare range
A$88.08 – A$111.91
34.1 km · 41 min typical
Tuesday 8am
A$88.08 – A$101.99
overnight tariff
Friday 6pm
A$88.08 – A$101.99
overnight tariff
Saturday 10pm
A$96.65 – A$111.91
peak tariff
Includes an estimated A$9.00 in tolls on the usual route.
Editor’s analysis
Tullamarine to St Kilda is the most-searched “where the hostels are” airport transfer in Melbourne — 34 km via CityLink, the West Gate Freeway and St Kilda Road. Tolls on this route are A$5-7, absorbed via Victoria’s metered toll-recovery formula. Avoiding CityLink saves about A$5 but adds 12-18 minutes through Brunswick and South Melbourne; not worth it during peak hours.
Late-night St Kilda drop-offs after 2am Saturday cross into Tariff 2 (night rate) and commonly land A$95-120 on the meter. The Albert Park Grand Prix weekend (mid-March) closes Fitzroy Street, Lakeside Drive and parts of Beaconsfield Parade — give the driver the cross-street, not the venue, so they can route around the closures. Melbourne Airport’s regulated A$2.65 pickup surcharge applies regardless of destination, already in the typical above.
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About this route
Victoria adds a small airport-pickup surcharge to fares starting at Melbourne Airport; that surcharge is already baked into the A$92.72 typical meter shown above. Saturday-night trips into St Kilda on the late-night tariff settle near A$101.74 — useful to know if your flight or event lands after the band kicks over. Account for around A$9.00 in tolls if the driver takes the standard route into St Kilda. The toll-free option is slower but cheaper.
Tullamarine is the main airport for Melbourne; most drivers take CityLink unless you ask to avoid the toll. Long inter-suburb trips like this 34.1-km ride from Melbourne Airport to St Kilda often beat fixed-price rideshare during peak hours — the meter doesn’t surge above A$92.72. Commercial Passenger Vehicles Victoria (CPVV) sets the metered ceiling reflected here — about A$92.72 on the day rate for the trip into St Kilda.