Darwin International Airport / RAAF Darwin
Darwin, Australia — 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 DRW to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Darwin.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairns, Australia | CNS | 1,674 km | 2h 30m |
| Kuta, Badung, Indonesia | DPS | 1,765 km | 2h 37m |
| Adelaide, Australia | ADL | 2,621 km | 3h 41m |
| Cebu City/Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines | CEB | 2,639 km | 3h 42m |
| Perth, Australia | PER | 2,653 km | 3h 43m |
| Jakarta, Indonesia | CGK | 2,747 km | 3h 50m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 2,850 km | 3h 58m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 2,929 km | 4h 03m |
| Melbourne, Australia | MEL | 3,132 km | 4h 19m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 3,154 km | 4h 20m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about DRW
What is the airport code for Darwin?
Darwin International Airport / RAAF Darwin uses the IATA code DRW and the ICAO code YPDN. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Darwin International Airport / RAAF Darwin?
It sits at 12.4150° S, 130.8818° E, serving Darwin in Australia, at an elevation of 103 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
