Fangatau Airport
Fangatau, French Polynesia — 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 FGU to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Fangatau.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 4,433 km | 5h 56m |
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 4,944 km | 6h 34m |
| Wellington, New Zealand | WLG | 5,094 km | 6h 45m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 5,352 km | 7h 04m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 5,693 km | 7h 30m |
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 5,958 km | 7h 49m |
| Mexico City, Mexico | MEX | 6,023 km | 7h 54m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 6,024 km | 7h 54m |
| San Francisco, United States | SFO | 6,250 km | 8h 11m |
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 6,276 km | 8h 13m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about FGU
What is the airport code for Fangatau?
Fangatau Airport uses the IATA code FGU and the ICAO code NTGB. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Fangatau Airport?
It sits at 15.8200° S, 140.8881° W, serving Fangatau in French Polynesia, at an elevation of 9 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
