MLE · VRMM
Velana International Airport
Malé, Maldives — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
IATAMLEVRMM
Latitude4.1918degrees
Longitude73.5291degrees
Elevation6feet
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 MLE
| Destination | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kochi, India | COK | 734 km | 1h 20m |
| Colombo, Sri Lanka | CMB | 778 km | 1h 23m |
| Bengaluru, India | BLR | 1,101 km | 1h 47m |
| Chennai, India | MAA | 1,220 km | 1h 56m |
| Vasco da Gama, India | GOI | 1,245 km | 1h 58m |
| Hyderabad, India | HYD | 1,545 km | 2h 20m |
| Pune, India | PNQ | 1,601 km | 2h 25m |
| Mumbai, India | BOM | 1,658 km | 2h 29m |
| Ahmedabad, India | AMD | 2,102 km | 3h 02m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 2,230 km | 3h 11m |
| Karachi, Pakistan | KHI | 2,402 km | 3h 24m |
| Jaipur, India | JAI | 2,528 km | 3h 34m |
| Kolkata, India | CCU | 2,606 km | 3h 39m |
| Lucknow, India | LKO | 2,629 km | 3h 41m |
| London, United Kingdom | LHR | 8,539 km | 11h 02m |
| New York, United States | JFK | 14,023 km | 17h 50m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 15,593 km | 19h 47m |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | DXB | 3,040 km | 4h 12m |
| Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise), France | CDG | 8,276 km | 10h 42m |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | AMS | 8,208 km | 10h 37m |
| Frankfurt am Main, Germany | FRA | 7,885 km | 10h 13m |
| Singapore, Singapore | SIN | 3,398 km | 4h 38m |
| Hong Kong, Hong Kong | HKG | 4,789 km | 6h 22m |
| Narita, Japan | NRT | 7,656 km | 9h 56m |
| Seoul, South Korea | ICN | 6,511 km | 8h 30m |
| Istanbul, Turkey | IST | 6,065 km | 7h 57m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 3,312 km | 4h 32m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 9,137 km | 11h 46m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 14,549 km | 18h 30m |
| Beijing, China | PEK | 5,871 km | 7h 43m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 5,926 km | 7h 47m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 7,144 km | 9h 18m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 5,875 km | 7h 43m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 3,239 km | 4h 27m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in Maldives
Questions about MLE
What is the airport code for Malé?
Velana International Airport uses the IATA code MLE and the ICAO code VRMM. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Velana International Airport?
It sits at 4.1918° N, 73.5291° E, serving Malé in Maldives, at an elevation of 6 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
