Saint Helena International Airport
Jamestown, Saint Helena — 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 HLE to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Jamestown.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 2,473 km | 3h 29m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 2,693 km | 3h 46m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 3,119 km | 4h 18m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 3,145 km | 4h 20m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 3,682 km | 5h 00m |
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 4,006 km | 5h 24m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 4,041 km | 5h 26m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 4,339 km | 5h 49m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 4,940 km | 6h 33m |
| Casablanca, Morocco | CMN | 5,489 km | 7h 14m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about HLE
What is the airport code for Jamestown?
Saint Helena International Airport uses the IATA code HLE and the ICAO code FHSH. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Saint Helena International Airport?
It sits at 15.9589° S, 5.6461° W, serving Jamestown in Saint Helena, at an elevation of 1,017 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
