Broken Hill Airport
Broken Hill, Australia — 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 BHQ to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Broken Hill.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide, Australia | ADL | 426 km | 57m |
| Melbourne, Australia | MEL | 701 km | 1h 17m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 930 km | 1h 35m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 1,233 km | 1h 57m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 1,235 km | 1h 57m |
| Cairns, Australia | CNS | 1,736 km | 2h 35m |
| Perth, Australia | PER | 2,400 km | 3h 24m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 2,760 km | 3h 51m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 2,992 km | 4h 08m |
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 3,087 km | 4h 15m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about BHQ
What is the airport code for Broken Hill?
Broken Hill Airport uses the IATA code BHQ and the ICAO code YBHI. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Broken Hill Airport?
It sits at 32.0014° S, 141.4720° E, serving Broken Hill in Australia, at an elevation of 958 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
