Mekele Alula Aba Nega Airport
Mekele, Ethiopia — 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 MQX to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Mekele.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 506 km | 1h 03m |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | JED | 914 km | 1h 33m |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | RUH | 1,482 km | 2h 16m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 1,669 km | 2h 30m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 1,822 km | 2h 41m |
| Manama, Bahrain | BAH | 1,835 km | 2h 42m |
| Kuwait City, Kuwait | KWI | 1,956 km | 2h 51m |
| Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | AUH | 2,001 km | 2h 54m |
| Cairo, Egypt | CAI | 2,031 km | 2h 57m |
| Amman, Jordan | AMM | 2,062 km | 2h 59m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about MQX
What is the airport code for Mekele?
Mekele Alula Aba Nega Airport uses the IATA code MQX and the ICAO code HAMK. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Mekele Alula Aba Nega Airport?
It sits at 13.4674° N, 39.5335° E, serving Mekele in Ethiopia, at an elevation of 7,396 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
