Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport
Harare, Zimbabwe — 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 HRE to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Harare.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 959 km | 1h 37m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 1,299 km | 2h 02m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 1,954 km | 2h 51m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 2,173 km | 3h 07m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 2,803 km | 3h 54m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 3,038 km | 4h 12m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 3,110 km | 4h 17m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 3,977 km | 5h 22m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 4,089 km | 5h 30m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 4,314 km | 5h 47m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about HRE
What is the airport code for Harare?
Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport uses the IATA code HRE and the ICAO code FVRG. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport?
It sits at 17.9318° S, 31.0928° E, serving Harare in Zimbabwe, at an elevation of 4,887 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
