Mae Fah Luang - Chiang Rai International Airport
Chiang Rai, Thailand — 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 CEI to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Chiang Rai.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yangon, Myanmar | RGN | 521 km | 1h 04m |
| Hanoi (Soc Son), Vietnam | HAN | 633 km | 1h 12m |
| Kunming, China | KMG | 654 km | 1h 14m |
| Bangkok, Thailand | DMK | 676 km | 1h 16m |
| Bangkok, Thailand | BKK | 703 km | 1h 18m |
| Dhaka, Bangladesh | DAC | 1,070 km | 1h 45m |
| Kolkata, India | CCU | 1,222 km | 1h 56m |
| Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | SGN | 1,248 km | 1h 58m |
| Chengdu (Shuangliu), China | CTU | 1,248 km | 1h 58m |
| Chongqing, China | CKG | 1,282 km | 2h 01m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about CEI
What is the airport code for Chiang Rai?
Mae Fah Luang - Chiang Rai International Airport uses the IATA code CEI and the ICAO code VTCT. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Mae Fah Luang - Chiang Rai International Airport?
It sits at 19.9523° N, 99.8829° E, serving Chiang Rai in Thailand, at an elevation of 1,280 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
