King Shaka International Airport
Durban, South Africa — 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 DUR
| Destination | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 478 km | 1h 01m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 1,277 km | 2h 00m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 2,856 km | 3h 58m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 3,206 km | 4h 24m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 3,777 km | 5h 07m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 4,369 km | 5h 51m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 4,996 km | 6h 38m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 5,001 km | 6h 38m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 5,146 km | 6h 49m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 5,768 km | 7h 35m |
| Malé, Maldives | MLE | 5,875 km | 7h 43m |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | RUH | 6,292 km | 8h 14m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 6,483 km | 8h 28m |
| Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | AUH | 6,515 km | 8h 31m |
| London, United Kingdom | LHR | 9,531 km | 12h 16m |
| New York, United States | JFK | 13,281 km | 16h 55m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 17,106 km | 21h 40m |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | DXB | 6,627 km | 8h 39m |
| Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise), France | CDG | 9,191 km | 11h 50m |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | AMS | 9,464 km | 12h 11m |
| Frankfurt am Main, Germany | FRA | 9,132 km | 11h 46m |
| Singapore, Singapore | SIN | 8,435 km | 10h 54m |
| Hong Kong, Hong Kong | HKG | 10,561 km | 13h 32m |
| Narita, Japan | NRT | 13,504 km | 17h 12m |
| Seoul, South Korea | ICN | 12,386 km | 15h 48m |
| Istanbul, Turkey | IST | 7,886 km | 10h 13m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 10,552 km | 13h 32m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 14,466 km | 18h 23m |
| Beijing, China | PEK | 11,721 km | 14h 59m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about DUR
What is the airport code for Durban?
King Shaka International Airport uses the IATA code DUR and the ICAO code FALE. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is King Shaka International Airport?
It sits at 29.6144° S, 31.1197° E, serving Durban in South Africa, at an elevation of 295 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
