Songwe Airport
Mbeya, Tanzania — 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 MBI to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Mbeya.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 937 km | 1h 35m |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 1,987 km | 2h 53m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 2,082 km | 3h 00m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 2,312 km | 3h 18m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 2,501 km | 3h 32m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 2,915 km | 4h 02m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 3,164 km | 4h 21m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 3,463 km | 4h 43m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 3,503 km | 4h 46m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 3,740 km | 5h 04m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in Tanzania
Questions about MBI
What is the airport code for Mbeya?
Songwe Airport uses the IATA code MBI and the ICAO code HTGW. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Songwe Airport?
It sits at 8.9199° S, 33.2740° E, serving Mbeya in Tanzania, at an elevation of 4,412 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
