Nanyuki Civil Airport
Gathiuru, Kenya — 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 NYK to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Gathiuru.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 140 km | 36m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 1,024 km | 1h 42m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 2,116 km | 3h 03m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 2,429 km | 3h 26m |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | RUH | 2,970 km | 4h 07m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 3,049 km | 4h 12m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 3,189 km | 4h 23m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 3,223 km | 4h 25m |
| Manama, Bahrain | BAH | 3,270 km | 4h 29m |
| Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | AUH | 3,320 km | 4h 33m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about NYK
What is the airport code for Gathiuru?
Nanyuki Civil Airport uses the IATA code NYK and the ICAO code HKNL. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Nanyuki Civil Airport?
It sits at 0.0624° S, 37.0413° E, serving Gathiuru in Kenya, at an elevation of 6,250 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
