Lifou Airport
Lifou, New Caledonia — 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 LIF to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Lifou.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 1,121 km | 1h 49m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 1,609 km | 2h 25m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 1,613 km | 2h 25m |
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 1,947 km | 2h 50m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 2,154 km | 3h 06m |
| Cairns, Australia | CNS | 2,301 km | 3h 17m |
| Wellington, New Zealand | WLG | 2,394 km | 3h 24m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 2,573 km | 3h 37m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 2,699 km | 3h 46m |
| Melbourne, Australia | MEL | 2,859 km | 3h 58m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in New Caledonia
Questions about LIF
What is the airport code for Lifou?
Lifou Airport uses the IATA code LIF and the ICAO code NWWL. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Lifou Airport?
It sits at 20.7746° S, 167.2393° E, serving Lifou in New Caledonia, at an elevation of 92 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
