Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport
Mattala, Sri Lanka — 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 HRI to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Mattala.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colombo, Sri Lanka | CMB | 169 km | 38m |
| Kochi, India | COK | 675 km | 1h 15m |
| Chennai, India | MAA | 753 km | 1h 21m |
| Bengaluru, India | BLR | 855 km | 1h 29m |
| Malé, Maldives | MLE | 873 km | 1h 30m |
| Hyderabad, India | HYD | 1,252 km | 1h 59m |
| Vasco da Gama, India | GOI | 1,287 km | 2h 01m |
| Pune, India | PNQ | 1,575 km | 2h 23m |
| Mumbai, India | BOM | 1,681 km | 2h 30m |
| Phuket, Thailand | HKT | 1,907 km | 2h 47m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in Sri Lanka
Questions about HRI
What is the airport code for Mattala?
Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport uses the IATA code HRI and the ICAO code VCRI. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport?
It sits at 6.2839° N, 81.1242° E, serving Mattala in Sri Lanka, at an elevation of 157 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
