El Hierro Airport
El Hierro Island, Spain — 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 VDE to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from El Hierro Island.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casablanca, Morocco | CMN | 1,162 km | 1h 52m |
| Lisbon, Portugal | LIS | 1,464 km | 2h 14m |
| Málaga, Spain | AGP | 1,596 km | 2h 24m |
| Porto, Portugal | OPO | 1,713 km | 2h 33m |
| Madrid, Spain | MAD | 1,924 km | 2h 49m |
| Algiers, Algeria | ALG | 2,210 km | 3h 10m |
| Palma de Mallorca, Spain | PMI | 2,303 km | 3h 17m |
| Barcelona, Spain | BCN | 2,354 km | 3h 21m |
| Tunis, Tunisia | TUN | 2,813 km | 3h 55m |
| Paris (Orly, Val-de-Marne), France | ORY | 2,902 km | 4h 01m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about VDE
What is the airport code for El Hierro Island?
El Hierro Airport uses the IATA code VDE and the ICAO code GCHI. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is El Hierro Airport?
It sits at 27.8148° N, 17.8871° W, serving El Hierro Island in Spain, 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.
