Elista Airport
Elista, Russia — 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 ESL to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Elista.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tbilisi, Georgia | TBS | 526 km | 1h 04m |
| Baku, Azerbaijan | GYD | 802 km | 1h 25m |
| Moscow, Russia | DME | 1,100 km | 1h 47m |
| Moscow, Russia | SVO | 1,170 km | 1h 52m |
| Pendik, Istanbul, Turkey | SAW | 1,351 km | 2h 06m |
| Istanbul, Turkey | IST | 1,371 km | 2h 07m |
| Otopeni, Romania | OTP | 1,432 km | 2h 12m |
| Antalya, Turkey | AYT | 1,537 km | 2h 20m |
| Beirut, Lebanon | BEY | 1,583 km | 2h 23m |
| Vilnius, Lithuania | VNO | 1,622 km | 2h 26m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about ESL
What is the airport code for Elista?
Elista Airport uses the IATA code ESL and the ICAO code URWI. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Elista Airport?
It sits at 46.3739° N, 44.3309° E, serving Elista in Russia, at an elevation of 501 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
