Mataiva Airport
Mataiva Airport, 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 MVT to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Mataiva Airport.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nadi, Fiji | NAN | 3,621 km | 4h 55m |
| Auckland, New Zealand | AKL | 4,359 km | 5h 50m |
| Wellington, New Zealand | WLG | 4,575 km | 6h 06m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 4,855 km | 6h 27m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 5,201 km | 6h 53m |
| Gold Coast, Australia | OOL | 6,101 km | 8h 00m |
| Brisbane, Australia | BNE | 6,138 km | 8h 03m |
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 6,265 km | 8h 12m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 6,305 km | 8h 15m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 6,351 km | 8h 19m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about MVT
What is the airport code for Mataiva Airport?
Mataiva Airport uses the IATA code MVT and the ICAO code NTGV. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Mataiva Airport?
It sits at 14.8681° S, 148.7170° W, serving Mataiva Airport in French Polynesia, at an elevation of 11 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
