O.R. Tambo International Airport
Johannesburg, South Africa — 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 JNB
| Destination | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 478 km | 1h 01m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 1,272 km | 2h 00m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 2,912 km | 4h 02m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 3,066 km | 4h 14m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 3,756 km | 5h 05m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 4,068 km | 5h 28m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 4,518 km | 6h 02m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 4,524 km | 6h 02m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 4,674 km | 6h 14m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 5,446 km | 7h 11m |
| Malé, Maldives | MLE | 5,926 km | 7h 47m |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | RUH | 6,017 km | 7h 54m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 6,243 km | 8h 10m |
| Cairo, Egypt | CAI | 6,264 km | 8h 12m |
| London, United Kingdom | LHR | 9,075 km | 11h 42m |
| New York, United States | JFK | 12,831 km | 16h 22m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 16,706 km | 21h 10m |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | DXB | 6,413 km | 8h 23m |
| Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise), France | CDG | 8,737 km | 11h 16m |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | AMS | 9,017 km | 11h 37m |
| Frankfurt am Main, Germany | FRA | 8,690 km | 11h 13m |
| Singapore, Singapore | SIN | 8,656 km | 11h 10m |
| Hong Kong, Hong Kong | HKG | 10,675 km | 13h 41m |
| Narita, Japan | NRT | 13,582 km | 17h 18m |
| Seoul, South Korea | ICN | 12,420 km | 15h 51m |
| Istanbul, Turkey | IST | 7,496 km | 9h 44m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 11,024 km | 14h 07m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 14,019 km | 17h 50m |
| Beijing, China | PEK | 11,709 km | 14h 58m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about JNB
What is the airport code for Johannesburg?
O.R. Tambo International Airport uses the IATA code JNB and the ICAO code FAOR. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is O.R. Tambo International Airport?
It sits at 26.1401° S, 28.2468° E, serving Johannesburg in South Africa, at an elevation of 5,558 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
