Ahmad Shah Baba International Airport
Kandahar, Afghanistan — 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 KDH to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Kandahar.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attock, Pakistan | ISB | 692 km | 1h 17m |
| Karachi, Pakistan | KHI | 745 km | 1h 21m |
| Lahore, Pakistan | LHE | 811 km | 1h 26m |
| Jaipur, India | JAI | 1,098 km | 1h 47m |
| Tashkent, Uzbekistan | TAS | 1,127 km | 1h 49m |
| New Delhi, India | DEL | 1,131 km | 1h 49m |
| Ahmedabad, India | AMD | 1,152 km | 1h 51m |
| Muscat/Seeb, Oman | MCT | 1,152 km | 1h 51m |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | DXB | 1,238 km | 1h 57m |
| Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | AUH | 1,350 km | 2h 06m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in Afghanistan
Questions about KDH
What is the airport code for Kandahar?
Ahmad Shah Baba International Airport uses the IATA code KDH and the ICAO code OAKN. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Ahmad Shah Baba International Airport?
It sits at 31.5058° N, 65.8480° E, serving Kandahar in Afghanistan, at an elevation of 3,337 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
