The yellowstripe scad is distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. In the Indian Ocean its ranges from the Persian Gulf and the northern Arabian Peninsula, eastward to India and South East Asia, and down to northern Australia where it is known from Shark Bay in the west to Brisbane in the east. The species is also known from offshore islands such as the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. The yellowstripe scad inhabits the western Pacific Ocean from Japan in the north south to the Indonesian Archipelago and several east Pacific Islands including New Caledonia and Vanuatu.