Grímsey Airport
Grímsey/Sandvík, Iceland — 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 GRY to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Grímsey/Sandvík.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reykjavík, Iceland | KEF | 356 km | 52m |
| Edinburgh, United Kingdom | EDI | 1,407 km | 2h 10m |
| Dublin, Ireland | DUB | 1,592 km | 2h 24m |
| Oslo (Gardermoen), Norway | OSL | 1,594 km | 2h 24m |
| Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom | MAN | 1,698 km | 2h 32m |
| Stockholm, Sweden | ARN | 1,930 km | 2h 49m |
| London, United Kingdom | LHR | 1,939 km | 2h 50m |
| London, United Kingdom | LGW | 1,980 km | 2h 53m |
| Copenhagen, Denmark | CPH | 2,015 km | 2h 55m |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | AMS | 2,017 km | 2h 56m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about GRY
What is the airport code for Grímsey/Sandvík?
Grímsey Airport uses the IATA code GRY and the ICAO code BIGR. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Grímsey Airport?
It sits at 66.5458° N, 18.0173° W, serving Grímsey/Sandvík in Iceland, at an elevation of 66 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
