Balkanabat International Airport
Balkanabat, Turkmenistan — 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 BKN to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Balkanabat.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baku, Azerbaijan | GYD | 364 km | 52m |
| Tbilisi, Georgia | TBS | 810 km | 1h 26m |
| Tashkent, Uzbekistan | TAS | 1,286 km | 2h 01m |
| Kuwait City, Kuwait | KWI | 1,295 km | 2h 02m |
| Manama, Bahrain | BAH | 1,528 km | 2h 19m |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | DXB | 1,608 km | 2h 25m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 1,620 km | 2h 26m |
| Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | AUH | 1,695 km | 2h 32m |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | RUH | 1,781 km | 2h 38m |
| Beirut, Lebanon | BEY | 1,786 km | 2h 38m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in Turkmenistan
Questions about BKN
What is the airport code for Balkanabat?
Balkanabat International Airport uses the IATA code BKN and the ICAO code UTAN. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Balkanabat International Airport?
It sits at 39.6811° N, 54.2060° E, serving Balkanabat in Turkmenistan, at an elevation of -26 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
