Lubumbashi International Airport
Lubumbashi, DR Congo — 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 FBM to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Lubumbashi.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 1,543 km | 2h 20m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 1,619 km | 2h 26m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 2,038 km | 2h 57m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 2,605 km | 3h 39m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 2,649 km | 3h 43m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 3,173 km | 4h 22m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 3,204 km | 4h 24m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 3,355 km | 4h 35m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 3,363 km | 4h 36m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 3,612 km | 4h 54m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about FBM
What is the airport code for Lubumbashi?
Lubumbashi International Airport uses the IATA code FBM and the ICAO code FZQA. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Lubumbashi International Airport?
It sits at 11.5915° S, 27.5308° E, serving Lubumbashi in DR Congo, at an elevation of 4,295 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
