Blaise Diagne International Airport
Dakar, Senegal — 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 DSS to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Dakar.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 2,105 km | 3h 02m |
| Casablanca, Morocco | CMN | 2,288 km | 3h 16m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 2,401 km | 3h 24m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 2,720 km | 3h 48m |
| Málaga, Spain | AGP | 2,746 km | 3h 50m |
| Lisbon, Portugal | LIS | 2,791 km | 3h 53m |
| Porto, Portugal | OPO | 3,064 km | 4h 14m |
| Madrid, Spain | MAD | 3,156 km | 4h 20m |
| Algiers, Algeria | ALG | 3,168 km | 4h 21m |
| Palma de Mallorca, Spain | PMI | 3,374 km | 4h 37m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about DSS
What is the airport code for Dakar?
Blaise Diagne International Airport uses the IATA code DSS and the ICAO code GOBD. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Blaise Diagne International Airport?
It sits at 14.6709° N, 17.0728° W, serving Dakar in Senegal, at an elevation of 290 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
