Gisborne Airport
Gisborne, New Zealand — 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 GIS to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Gisborne.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 335 km | 50m |
| Wellington, New Zealand | WLG | 401 km | 55m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 704 km | 1h 18m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 1,040 km | 1h 43m |
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 2,325 km | 3h 18m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 2,449 km | 3h 28m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 2,542 km | 3h 35m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 2,623 km | 3h 41m |
| Melbourne, Australia | MEL | 2,883 km | 4h 00m |
| Adelaide, Australia | ADL | 3,509 km | 4h 47m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about GIS
What is the airport code for Gisborne?
Gisborne Airport uses the IATA code GIS and the ICAO code NZGS. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Gisborne Airport?
It sits at 38.6633° S, 177.9780° E, serving Gisborne in New Zealand, at an elevation of 15 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
