Kilimanjaro International Airport
Arusha, Tanzania — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How this is worked out
- Both airports' coordinates come from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset — nothing is scraped from another flight site.
- 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.
- Airborne time is that distance divided by 805 km/h, a representative jet cruise speed.
- 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.
- 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
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Flight times from JRO to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Arusha.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 235 km | 43m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 1,393 km | 2h 09m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 2,051 km | 2h 58m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 2,695 km | 3h 46m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 2,801 km | 3h 54m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 2,925 km | 4h 03m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 2,979 km | 4h 07m |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | RUH | 3,323 km | 4h 33m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 3,556 km | 4h 50m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 3,582 km | 4h 52m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in Tanzania
Questions about JRO
What is the airport code for Arusha?
Kilimanjaro International Airport uses the IATA code JRO and the ICAO code HTKJ. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Kilimanjaro International Airport?
It sits at 3.4270° S, 37.0735° E, serving Arusha in Tanzania, at an elevation of 2,932 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
