Kelowna International Airport
Kelowna, Canada — 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 YLW to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Kelowna.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver, Canada | YVR | 287 km | 47m |
| Seattle, United States | SEA | 352 km | 51m |
| Salt Lake City, United States | SLC | 1,170 km | 1h 52m |
| San Francisco, United States | SFO | 1,392 km | 2h 09m |
| Las Vegas, United States | LAS | 1,580 km | 2h 23m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 1,607 km | 2h 25m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 1,782 km | 2h 38m |
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 1,924 km | 2h 49m |
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 1,934 km | 2h 49m |
| Minneapolis, United States | MSP | 2,036 km | 2h 57m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about YLW
What is the airport code for Kelowna?
Kelowna International Airport uses the IATA code YLW and the ICAO code CYLW. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Kelowna International Airport?
It sits at 49.9561° N, 119.3780° W, serving Kelowna in Canada, at an elevation of 1,421 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
