Christmas Island
Territory of Christmas Island · Australia and New Zealand
Christmas Island is one of the islands of the Indian Ocean in Southeast Asia. It is south of Indonesia and some 1,550 km northwest of Australia, of which it is a territory. It was home to about 1,800 people in 2016, a mix of Straits Chinese, Malay, Australian and other ethnic groups.
Guide content adapted from the Wikivoyage article "Christmas Island". Source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Weather
Live24°C
Light drizzle · feels like 23°C
- 86%
- 31 km/h
- AQI 26
- SunLight drizzle24° / 25°
- MonLight drizzle23° / 24°
- TueModerate drizzle23° / 24°
- WedLight drizzle23° / 24°
Measured at the country centroid, not a specific city.
Money
LiveAustralian dollar (AUD)
- $1 USD
- $1.420
- €1 EUR
- $1.638
Reference rates for 2026-08-07. Indicative — not the rate a bureau will give you.
What a trip to Christmas Island costs
Visas, flights, beds, food and everything in between, priced for your party and your dates. Every line shows its own arithmetic, so you can disagree with the parts you know better than we do.
Your trip
8 days on the ground
Estimated cost
$4,587
$2,294 per person · $287 per person per day
- $100
Visa & entry
$50 × 2 — typical tourist visa or eVisa fee
- $1,691
Flights
$845 return × 2 · 12,102 km
- $945
Accommodation
$135/night × 7 nights × 1 room · Standard
- $720
Food & drink
$45/person/day × 8 days × 2
- $256
Local transport
$16/person/day × 8 days × 2
- $30
SIM & internet
$15 per person, once × 2
- $448
Attractions
$28/person/day × 8 days × 2
- $58
Travel insurance
$4/person/day × 8 days × 2
- Subtotal
- $4,247
- Miscellaneous (8%)
- $340
- Total
- $4,587
Budget at a glance
Per day
$573
Per person
$2,294
Family of 4
$9,174
7 days
$4,587
14 days
$7,008
30 days
$12,541
The 7, 14 and 30-day figures re-price the whole trip at that length — flights and visas do not repeat, so a month is far from four times a week.
A planning estimate, not a quote — ground costs are modelled from a cost tier for Christmas Island, not scraped from live inventory. Your settings are saved to this device.