Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo International Airport
Ixtapa, Mexico — 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 ZIH to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Ixtapa.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico City, Mexico | MEX | 324 km | 49m |
| Austin, United States | AUS | 1,453 km | 2h 13m |
| Houston, United States | IAH | 1,510 km | 2h 18m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 1,577 km | 2h 23m |
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 1,757 km | 2h 36m |
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 2,051 km | 2h 58m |
| Tampa, United States | TPA | 2,253 km | 3h 13m |
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 2,304 km | 3h 17m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 2,365 km | 3h 21m |
| Orlando, United States | MCO | 2,383 km | 3h 23m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about ZIH
What is the airport code for Ixtapa?
Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo International Airport uses the IATA code ZIH and the ICAO code MMZH. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo International Airport?
It sits at 17.6018° N, 101.4606° W, serving Ixtapa in Mexico, at an elevation of 26 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
