London Stansted Airport
London, Essex, United Kingdom — 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 STN to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from London, Essex.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| London, United Kingdom | LHR | 66 km | 30m |
| London, United Kingdom | LGW | 87 km | 32m |
| Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom | MAN | 235 km | 43m |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | AMS | 313 km | 49m |
| Zaventem, Belgium | BRU | 314 km | 49m |
| Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise), France | CDG | 359 km | 52m |
| Paris (Orly, Val-de-Marne), France | ORY | 382 km | 54m |
| Düsseldorf, Germany | DUS | 456 km | 59m |
| Dublin, Ireland | DUB | 470 km | 1h 00m |
| Luxembourg, Luxembourg | LUX | 490 km | 1h 02m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about STN
What is the airport code for London, Essex?
London Stansted Airport uses the IATA code STN and the ICAO code EGSS. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is London Stansted Airport?
It sits at 51.8850° N, 0.2350° E, serving London, Essex in United Kingdom, at an elevation of 348 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
