Manda Airport
Lamu, Kenya — 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 LAU to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Lamu.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 455 km | 59m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 1,271 km | 2h 00m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 1,644 km | 2h 28m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 2,668 km | 3h 44m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 2,720 km | 3h 48m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 2,981 km | 4h 07m |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | RUH | 3,089 km | 4h 15m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 3,214 km | 4h 25m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 3,271 km | 4h 29m |
| Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | AUH | 3,318 km | 4h 33m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about LAU
What is the airport code for Lamu?
Manda Airport uses the IATA code LAU and the ICAO code HKLU. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Manda Airport?
It sits at 2.2524° S, 40.9129° E, serving Lamu in Kenya, at an elevation of 20 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
