Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport
Medina, Saudi Arabia — 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 MED to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Medina.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 324 km | 49m |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | RUH | 708 km | 1h 18m |
| Amman, Jordan | AMM | 876 km | 1h 31m |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | TLV | 954 km | 1h 36m |
| Kuwait City, Kuwait | KWI | 970 km | 1h 37m |
| Cairo, Egypt | CAI | 1,027 km | 1h 42m |
| Beirut, Lebanon | BEY | 1,108 km | 1h 48m |
| Manama, Bahrain | BAH | 1,114 km | 1h 48m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 1,203 km | 1h 55m |
| Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | AUH | 1,511 km | 2h 18m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about MED
What is the airport code for Medina?
Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport uses the IATA code MED and the ICAO code OEMA. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport?
It sits at 24.5534° N, 39.7051° E, serving Medina in Saudi Arabia, at an elevation of 2,151 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
