Hervey Bay Airport
Hervey Bay, Australia — 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 HVB to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Hervey Bay.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 231 km | 42m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 322 km | 49m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 973 km | 1h 38m |
| Cairns, Australia | CNS | 1,194 km | 1h 54m |
| Melbourne, Australia | MEL | 1,569 km | 2h 22m |
| Adelaide, Australia | ADL | 1,743 km | 2h 35m |
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 2,447 km | 3h 28m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 2,612 km | 3h 40m |
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 2,670 km | 3h 44m |
| Wellington, New Zealand | WLG | 2,691 km | 3h 46m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about HVB
What is the airport code for Hervey Bay?
Hervey Bay Airport uses the IATA code HVB and the ICAO code YHBA. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Hervey Bay Airport?
It sits at 25.3201° S, 152.8807° E, serving Hervey Bay in Australia, at an elevation of 60 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.