Heraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis Airport
Heraklion, Greece — 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 HER to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Heraklion.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spata-Artemida, Greece | ATH | 309 km | 48m |
| Antalya, Turkey | AYT | 534 km | 1h 05m |
| Pendik, Istanbul, Turkey | SAW | 716 km | 1h 19m |
| Istanbul, Turkey | IST | 729 km | 1h 20m |
| Cairo, Egypt | CAI | 822 km | 1h 26m |
| Sofia, Bulgaria | SOF | 832 km | 1h 27m |
| Beirut, Lebanon | BEY | 958 km | 1h 37m |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | TLV | 971 km | 1h 38m |
| Otopeni, Romania | OTP | 1,030 km | 1h 42m |
| Amman, Jordan | AMM | 1,079 km | 1h 46m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about HER
What is the airport code for Heraklion?
Heraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis Airport uses the IATA code HER and the ICAO code LGIR. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Heraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis Airport?
It sits at 35.3397° N, 25.1803° E, serving Heraklion in Greece, at an elevation of 115 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
