The 2016 Emirates Melbourne Cup was the 156th running of the Melbourne Cup, an Australian thoroughbred horse race. The race, run over , was held on 1 November 2016 at Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse. The date was a public holiday in the state of Victoria. The final field for the race was declared on 29 October. The total prize money for the race was A$6.2 million, the same as the previous year.
The winner was Almandin, ridden by Kerrin McEvoy, who won his 2nd Melbourne Cup after a 16-year gap between his first Melbourne Cup win, and trained by Robert Hickmott. Heartbreak City ran second and Hartnell third. The race was run in 3:20:58. Commentator Greg Miles called his 36th and last Melbourne Cup.
This is a list of horses which ran in the 2016 Melbourne Cup.