Spriggs Payne Airport
Monrovia, Liberia — 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 MLW to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Monrovia.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 1,174 km | 1h 53m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 1,556 km | 2h 21m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 2,009 km | 2h 55m |
| Casablanca, Morocco | CMN | 3,029 km | 4h 11m |
| Málaga, Spain | AGP | 3,438 km | 4h 41m |
| Lisbon, Portugal | LIS | 3,617 km | 4h 55m |
| Algiers, Algeria | ALG | 3,667 km | 4h 59m |
| Madrid, Spain | MAD | 3,870 km | 5h 14m |
| Porto, Portugal | OPO | 3,893 km | 5h 15m |
| Palma de Mallorca, Spain | PMI | 3,938 km | 5h 19m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about MLW
What is the airport code for Monrovia?
Spriggs Payne Airport uses the IATA code MLW and the ICAO code GLMR. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Spriggs Payne Airport?
It sits at 6.2891° N, 10.7587° W, serving Monrovia in Liberia, at an elevation of 25 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
