Bujumbura Melchior Ndadaye International Airport
Bujumbura, Burundi — 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 BJM to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Bujumbura.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 874 km | 1h 30m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 1,725 km | 2h 34m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 2,540 km | 3h 34m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 2,803 km | 3h 54m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 2,910 km | 4h 02m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 2,930 km | 4h 04m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 2,979 km | 4h 07m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 3,089 km | 4h 15m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 3,422 km | 4h 40m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 3,584 km | 4h 52m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about BJM
What is the airport code for Bujumbura?
Bujumbura Melchior Ndadaye International Airport uses the IATA code BJM and the ICAO code HBBA. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Bujumbura Melchior Ndadaye International Airport?
It sits at 3.3240° S, 29.3185° E, serving Bujumbura in Burundi, at an elevation of 2,582 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
