Castlegar/West Kootenay Regional Airport
Castlegar, Canada — 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 YCG to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Castlegar.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle, United States | SEA | 402 km | 55m |
| Vancouver, Canada | YVR | 403 km | 55m |
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 1,044 km | 1h 43m |
| San Francisco, United States | SFO | 1,353 km | 2h 06m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 1,464 km | 2h 14m |
| Las Vegas, United States | LAS | 1,483 km | 2h 16m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 1,708 km | 2h 33m |
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 1,824 km | 2h 41m |
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 1,842 km | 2h 42m |
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 1,903 km | 2h 47m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about YCG
What is the airport code for Castlegar?
Castlegar/West Kootenay Regional Airport uses the IATA code YCG and the ICAO code CYCG. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Castlegar/West Kootenay Regional Airport?
It sits at 49.2964° N, 117.6320° W, serving Castlegar in Canada, at an elevation of 1,624 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
