McClellan-Palomar Airport
Carlsbad, 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 CLD to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Carlsbad.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 45 km | 29m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 138 km | 36m |
| Las Vegas, United States | LAS | 382 km | 54m |
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 491 km | 1h 02m |
| San Francisco, United States | SFO | 680 km | 1h 16m |
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 973 km | 1h 38m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 1,351 km | 2h 06m |
| Seattle, United States | SEA | 1,648 km | 2h 28m |
| Vancouver, Canada | YVR | 1,852 km | 2h 43m |
| Austin, United States | AUS | 1,882 km | 2h 45m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about CLD
What is the airport code for Carlsbad?
McClellan-Palomar Airport uses the IATA code CLD and the ICAO code KCRQ. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is McClellan-Palomar Airport?
It sits at 33.1283° N, 117.2800° W, serving Carlsbad in United States, at an elevation of 331 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
