Makemo Airport
Makemo, French Polynesia — 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 MKP to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Makemo.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 4,128 km | 5h 33m |
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 4,657 km | 6h 12m |
| Wellington, New Zealand | WLG | 4,820 km | 6h 24m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 5,083 km | 6h 44m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 5,426 km | 7h 10m |
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 6,164 km | 8h 05m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 6,223 km | 8h 09m |
| Mexico City, Mexico | MEX | 6,307 km | 8h 15m |
| San Francisco, United States | SFO | 6,425 km | 8h 24m |
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 6,497 km | 8h 29m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about MKP
What is the airport code for Makemo?
Makemo Airport uses the IATA code MKP and the ICAO code NTGM. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Makemo Airport?
It sits at 16.5839° S, 143.6580° W, serving Makemo in French Polynesia, at an elevation of 3 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
