Lea County Regional Airport
Hobbs, United States — 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 HOB to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Hobbs.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 578 km | 1h 08m |
| Austin, United States | AUS | 595 km | 1h 10m |
| Houston, United States | IAH | 806 km | 1h 25m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 808 km | 1h 25m |
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 823 km | 1h 27m |
| Las Vegas, United States | LAS | 1,157 km | 1h 51m |
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 1,191 km | 1h 54m |
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 1,306 km | 2h 03m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 1,417 km | 2h 11m |
| Mexico City, Mexico | MEX | 1,530 km | 2h 19m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about HOB
What is the airport code for Hobbs?
Lea County Regional Airport uses the IATA code HOB and the ICAO code KHOB. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Lea County Regional Airport?
It sits at 32.6875° N, 103.2170° W, serving Hobbs in United States, at an elevation of 3,661 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
