Mmabatho International Airport
Mafeking, South Africa — 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 MBD to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Mafeking.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 272 km | 46m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 693 km | 1h 17m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 1,128 km | 1h 49m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 2,982 km | 4h 07m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 3,332 km | 4h 34m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 3,962 km | 5h 21m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 4,124 km | 5h 33m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 4,327 km | 5h 48m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 4,346 km | 5h 49m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 4,460 km | 5h 58m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about MBD
What is the airport code for Mafeking?
Mmabatho International Airport uses the IATA code MBD and the ICAO code FAMM. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Mmabatho International Airport?
It sits at 25.7984° S, 25.5480° E, serving Mafeking in South Africa, at an elevation of 4,181 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
