Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Buffalo, 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 BUF to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Buffalo.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto, Canada | YYZ | 109 km | 33m |
| Detroit, United States | DTW | 387 km | 54m |
| Philadelphia, United States | PHL | 448 km | 59m |
| Baltimore, United States | BWI | 453 km | 59m |
| Newark, United States | EWR | 453 km | 59m |
| Dulles, United States | IAD | 457 km | 59m |
| New York, United States | LGA | 469 km | 1h 00m |
| Washington, United States | DCA | 476 km | 1h 01m |
| New York, United States | JFK | 484 km | 1h 01m |
| Montréal, Canada | YUL | 487 km | 1h 01m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about BUF
What is the airport code for Buffalo?
Buffalo Niagara International Airport uses the IATA code BUF and the ICAO code KBUF. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Buffalo Niagara International Airport?
It sits at 42.9405° N, 78.7322° W, serving Buffalo in United States, at an elevation of 728 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
