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ARK · HTAR

Arusha Airport

Arusha, Tanzania — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.

IATAARKHTAR
Latitude-3.3678degrees
Longitude36.6333degrees
Elevation4,550feet

SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026

How this is worked out

  1. Both airports' coordinates come from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset — nothing is scraped from another flight site.
  2. Distance is a great-circle (haversine) figure on a mean earth radius of 6,371.0088 km, so it is the shortest path over the surface, not a road distance.
  3. Airborne time is that distance divided by 805 km/h, a representative jet cruise speed.
  4. A flat 25 minutes is added for pushback, taxi, climb, descent and taxi-in, which is why no hop is ever half an hour gate to gate.
  5. Winds, aircraft type and airline schedule padding are not modelled, and every route page shows the same distance at four cruise speeds so you can see what that assumption is worth.
gate-to-gate hours = 0.42 + distance km / 805

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SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Flight times from ARK to the nearest major hubs

Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Arusha.

HubCodeDistanceFlight time
Nairobi, Kenya NBO230 km42m
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ADD1,394 km2h 09m
Victoria, Seychelles SEZ2,100 km3h 02m
Johannesburg, South Africa JNB2,686 km3h 45m
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia JED2,799 km3h 54m
Plaine Magnien, Mauritius MRU2,966 km4h 06m
Durban, South Africa DUR2,976 km4h 07m
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia RUH3,332 km4h 34m
Abuja, Nigeria ABV3,534 km4h 49m
Doha, Qatar DOH3,571 km4h 51m

SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026

Questions about ARK

What is the airport code for Arusha?

Arusha Airport uses the IATA code ARK and the ICAO code HTAR. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.

Where is Arusha Airport?

It sits at 3.3678° S, 36.6333° E, serving Arusha in Tanzania, at an elevation of 4,550 feet.

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.

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