Lightning Ridge Airport
Lightning Ridge Airport, Australia — 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 LHG to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Lightning Ridge Airport.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 553 km | 1h 06m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 557 km | 1h 07m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 584 km | 1h 09m |
| Melbourne, Australia | MEL | 959 km | 1h 37m |
| Adelaide, Australia | ADL | 1,078 km | 1h 46m |
| Cairns, Australia | CNS | 1,416 km | 2h 11m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 2,511 km | 3h 32m |
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 2,621 km | 3h 41m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 2,677 km | 3h 45m |
| Wellington, New Zealand | WLG | 2,751 km | 3h 50m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about LHG
What is the airport code for Lightning Ridge Airport?
Lightning Ridge Airport uses the IATA code LHG and the ICAO code YLRD. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Lightning Ridge Airport?
It sits at 29.4529° S, 147.9771° E, serving Lightning Ridge Airport in Australia, at an elevation of 540 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
