Meadows Field
Bakersfield, United States — 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 BFL to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Bakersfield.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 176 km | 38m |
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 346 km | 51m |
| Las Vegas, United States | LAS | 360 km | 52m |
| San Francisco, United States | SFO | 383 km | 54m |
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 684 km | 1h 16m |
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 858 km | 1h 29m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 1,357 km | 2h 06m |
| Seattle, United States | SEA | 1,363 km | 2h 07m |
| Vancouver, Canada | YVR | 1,567 km | 2h 22m |
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 2,041 km | 2h 57m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about BFL
What is the airport code for Bakersfield?
Meadows Field uses the IATA code BFL and the ICAO code KBFL. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Meadows Field?
It sits at 35.4336° N, 119.0570° W, serving Bakersfield in United States, at an elevation of 510 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
