King Mswati III International Airport
Mpaka, Eswatini — 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 SHO to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Mpaka.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg, South Africa | JNB | 347 km | 51m |
| Durban, South Africa | DUR | 367 km | 53m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 1,516 km | 2h 18m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 2,725 km | 3h 48m |
| Nairobi, Kenya | NBO | 2,840 km | 3h 57m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 3,495 km | 4h 46m |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ADD | 4,003 km | 5h 24m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 4,737 km | 6h 18m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 4,774 km | 6h 21m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 4,943 km | 6h 34m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about SHO
What is the airport code for Mpaka?
King Mswati III International Airport uses the IATA code SHO and the ICAO code FDSK. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is King Mswati III International Airport?
It sits at 26.3586° S, 31.7169° E, serving Mpaka in Eswatini, at an elevation of 1,092 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
