Melbourne: Use This Tool To Find Out What’s In Your 25KM Range Now We Can Taste Freedom Again

Melburnians have once again been granted a taste of freedom and will be allowed to travel 25km from home from Friday, as opposed to the previous limit of 10km. So depending on where you’re at, you could go to the Tan, or wave at the planes out at Tullamarine, or head to a beach that isn’t in St. Kilda (because ew).

So how can you actually figure out what is and isn’t inside your 25km? There’s actually a few ways to figure it out, and it’s a lot easier than you might think.

But before you get too excited and think you can head down to your beach house on the Great Ocean Road, the 25km radius doesn’t stretch as far as you might think. You cannot go to regional Victoria just yet. So a girls trip to Daylesford is firmly off the cards, because that’s a firm 100km from Fitzroy North.

KM from home

This website is my personal favourite tool to use when measuring the 25km, as it’s super user-friendly. It was created by Irish developer Dave Bolger who created it shortly after Ireland introduced a radius rule in late March.

The url says 2kmfromhome.com, but it can be used to measure pretty much any km radius you want to test out. I tried 100km and it took me all the way to Ballarat and Anglesea, which then made me sad because I can’t go there…but still pretty cool.

Google Maps

If you want to measure the straight-line distance between you and a particular location, Google Maps has a tool for that.

On the Google Maps app, click on your location and then hit ‘Measure distance’ and drop the pin to literally anywhere, and I mean anywhere. I tried Engadine McDonald’s and it was 683.80km from my home.

On desktop, it’s the same principle, but you need to right click on your location and then hit ‘measure distance’.

Interactive Maps

The last time we were given a longer leash post-lockdown (last October, but who knows how time works anymore), The Age launched an interactive map so you can figure out what’s in your extended radius. You can access it and have a play around with the map over here.

For some people the reinstated 25km may not be the outcome you were hoping for, especially for those around the bottom end of Port Philip Bay who found out last time that their radius is mostly just water.

Praying for you, Sorrento folks.

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