Kigali International Airport
Kigali, Rwanda — 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 KGL to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Kigali.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 758 km | 1h 22m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 1,550 km | 2h 21m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 2,695 km | 3h 46m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 2,806 km | 3h 54m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 2,813 km | 3h 55m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 2,833 km | 3h 56m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 3,076 km | 4h 14m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 3,125 km | 4h 18m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 3,469 km | 4h 44m |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | RUH | 3,486 km | 4h 45m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about KGL
What is the airport code for Kigali?
Kigali International Airport uses the IATA code KGL and the ICAO code HRYR. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Kigali International Airport?
It sits at 1.9686° S, 30.1395° E, serving Kigali in Rwanda, at an elevation of 4,859 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
