Bluefields Airport
Bluefields, Nicaragua — 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 BEF to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Bluefields.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 579 km | 1h 08m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 1,059 km | 1h 44m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 1,333 km | 2h 05m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 1,578 km | 2h 23m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 1,611 km | 2h 25m |
| Tampa, United States | TPA | 1,782 km | 2h 38m |
| Mexico City, Mexico | MEX | 1,833 km | 2h 42m |
| Orlando, United States | MCO | 1,846 km | 2h 43m |
| Houston, United States | IAH | 2,330 km | 3h 19m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 2,408 km | 3h 25m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about BEF
What is the airport code for Bluefields?
Bluefields Airport uses the IATA code BEF and the ICAO code MNBL. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Bluefields Airport?
It sits at 11.9910° N, 83.7741° W, serving Bluefields in Nicaragua, at an elevation of 20 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
